tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237724005744642470.post2955174533702748513..comments2018-06-08T11:59:28.319+01:00Roger Hugheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07042290171112551665[email protected]Blogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237724005744642470.post-86108721102472408662014-08-01T09:19:09.095+01:002014-08-01T09:19:09.095+01:00Functional programming makes it much easier for the JVM to run your code on multiple cores. However, for 99.99% of all problems, aren&#39;t things quick enough already, and is it worth the additional &#39;think&#39; time to implement your solution in a functional way?Anonymous[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237724005744642470.post-49772399621736780352014-06-02T20:41:50.868+01:002014-06-02T20:41:50.868+01:00sidgate<br />Thanks for the comment. By saying &#39;craze&#39; I want to highlight that in this business science sometimes take a back seat to hype and fashion. There&#39;s often more psychology behind the adoption of a language or paradigm change than logic. Writing more minimal, clearer, more maintainable code is a really good reason to use Java 8. The &#39;parallelism&#39; thing seems more like marketing hype as you can do &#39;parallelism&#39; without functional programming and Java 8; hence, the supposition that developers use functional programming because it&#39;s cool... This s not necessarily a bad thing as reinvention and change is nothing new drives the computing industry.<br />Roger Hugheshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07042290171112551665[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3237724005744642470.post-55462757758019541882014-06-02T11:30:30.866+01:002014-06-02T11:30:30.866+01:00Do you really think it is a craze? wouldn&#39;t it help developers to write minimal code without worrying about parallelism? sidgatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15210177660761651917[email protected]