[hemmerling] Functional Programming

• Experts told me their subjective order of easyness to learn:
  1. EN.Wikipedia "Objective Caml", DE.Wikipedia "Objective CAML".
  2. EN.Wikipedia "Clojure", DE.Wikipedia "Clojure".
  3. EN.Wikipedia "Haskell (programming language)", DE.Wikipedia "Haskell (Programmiersprache)".

• EN.Wikipedia "F Sharp (programming language)", DE.Wikipedia "F-Sharp".
  • Microsoft Research "F# Downloads".

• Google - Search for "functional programming c#".

• OpenJDK: Project Lambda.
• SlideShare "Daniel Smth, Java Language Designer: Project Lambda in Java SE 8".
• Oracle "Java Platform Standard Edition 8 Documentation".
• Oracle Documentation "JavaFX8".

• Eclipse.
  • Eclipsepedia "JDT/Eclipse Java 8 Support (BETA)".
  • Eclipsepedia "JDT Core/Java8".
• NetBeans IDE 8.
• IntelliJ IDEA 13 Community Edition FREE.
  • IDEA 13 Community Edition EAP with Java8 support.

• JAXenter.de "Java Magazin veranstaltet Lambda Tour: Java-8-Hackathons in München, Hamburg, Frankfurt und Duisburg".
  • Angelika Langer - Training & Consulting.
    • Angelika Langer - Training & Consulting "Programming with Lambdas & Streams in Java 8".
    • Angelika Langer - Training & Consulting "Lambda Expressions and Streams in Java - Tutorial & Reference".
    • Angelika Langer - Training & Consulting, Slides "Java 8 Lambda Expressions" ( PDF ).
    • YouTube "Funktionale Programmierung für Java-Entwickler".
    • Vimeo "Lambdas in Java 8".
    • Twitter "Angelika Langer".
  • Klaus Kreft.
• NightHacking.
  • Meetup "NightHacking Worldwide" - “Lambdas Hacking with Brian Goetz”, 2014-01-16.
  • Facebook "NightHacking".
  • Brian Goetz.
  • LinkedIn "Brian Goetz".
  • Twitter "Brian Goetz".

• JavaSlang - Functional Library for Java 8+, GitHub "javaslang".

• Language features:
  • Functional interfaces.
    • DZone Javalobby "Mohamed Sanaulla: Introduction to Functional Interfaces – A concept recreated in Java 8".
    • An interface with one ( and just one ) implemented method.
  • Executive pattern - Execution of actions in a defined order.
  • Null pattern.
    • EN.Wikipedia "Null Object pattern", EN.Wikipedia "Nullobjekt (Entwurfsmuster)".
• Brian Goetz "State of the Lambda", 2013-09.
• Slideshare - Günter Jantzen.
  • Slideshare - Günter Jantzen "Art of the state - Funktionale Softwarearchitektur mit Plain Old Java".
• XING "Sven Ruppert", LinkedIn "Sven Ruppert".
  • JAXenter.de "Sven Ruppert".
  • Twitter "Sven Ruppert, @SvenRuppert".
  • The e-book Sven Ruppert: Java 8 Streams (shortcuts).
  • RapidPM.
  • GitHub "svenruppert".
  • The commercial course Eppleton IT Consulting "Java 8 Kickstart".
• The Java Tutorials' Weblog Blog for thejavatutorials "JavaOne 2013: Lambda Expressions".
  • Paul Sandoz "Java 8 Streams: Lambda in Top Gear".
  • Mike Duigou "Java 8 Collections and Concurrency".
  • Maurice Naftalin "Navigating the Streams API" #.
  • Alexander Belokrylov "Retro Gaming with Lambdas".
  • Stuart Marks "Jump-starting Lambda Programming".
• Oracle, Deepak Vohra "Trying Out Lambda Expressions in the Eclipse IDE".
• JUG Bremen "Aktueller Stand Java 8", 2013-09-17.

• Frege.
  • The free online Frede IDE Frege REPL.
• GitHub "Frege" - “Frege is a Haskell for the JVM. It brings purely functional programing to the Java platform”.
• Wiki GitHub Wiki "Frege".

• ycombinator "Frege: A Haskell-Like Language for the JVM".
• EN.Wikipedia "Frege (programming language)".

• Scala - “The Scala Programming Language”.
  • EN.Wikipedia "Scala (programming language)".

• See Testing.

• Coursera "Martin Odersky: Functional Programming Principles in Scala".

• Book Venkat Subramaniam "Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions" #.
  • The Pragmatic Bookshelf "Functional Programming in Java".
  • The Pragmatic Bookshelf "Functional Programming in Java" - Source code.
• Book Richard Warburton "Java 8 Lambdas: Pragmatic Functional Programming".

• Book Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon, Bill Venners "Programming In Scala".
• Book Oliver Braun "Scala: Objektfunktionale Programmierung".

• heise Developer, Golo Roden "F# - funktionales Pendant zu C#".
• Microsoft Research "F# at Microsoft Research".
• EN.Wikipedia "Currying", DE.Wikipedia "Currying".
• EN.Wikipedia "Partial application".
• EN.Wikipedia "Anonymous function", DE.Wikipedia "Anonyme Funktion".

• JetBrains "Developer Community / IntelliJ IDEA / Scala" Forum.

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