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by TeMPOraL 2786 days ago
> But the article agrees that this limitation "can be considered negligible" (seriously, read it-- that's the conclusion.)

Working both in Java and Lisp professionally, it sure as hell isn't negligible. It changes the way you write code. Lambdas in Java are 80% solution. Java 8 really did make this language finally bearable, sometimes pleasant to work with. 80% solutions are good, but the remaining 20% is not "negligible".