Neal Ford coined the term functional thinking to describe the mental shift required from developers trained primarily in object-oriented programming, who want to integrate functional programming concepts and techniques into their practice. I applied this concept in my two-part tutorial, “Functional programming for Java developers.” In Part 1, I introduced five functional programming techniques written in JavaScript, then in Part 2 we refactored those code examples using the equivalent Java code. Next, we refactored a number of those examples again, this time using functional programming language features introduced in Java 8.
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