Java 8 release date slips again, now planned for 2014 Oracle has redoubled its efforts to address the recent spate of vulnerabilities related to Java running in web browsers, but the renewed focus on security has had an unfortunate side effect – namely, that Java 8 will no longer ship by its planned September 2013 release date. According to Mark Reinhold, chief architect for …
It feels so much like Microsoft and getting people to develop for their Windows Phone / 8 platform. Plagued with so many problems that by the time they can get anything out people may not be all that interested or start thinking their strategy through and wonder if they should switch to something a bit more promising or less unsure as to its future.
The question that arises at this point though is this: What platform is that?
It's not anything like Windows 8. Win 8 being a consumer platform (primarily), time to market is critical to get consumers interested. Java 8 holds nothing interesting for consumers. It's interesting for developers, who are hardly going to jump ship to something else because of a delay.
Alonzo Church rather predated the creation of LISP, and I believe he coined the term 'lambda expression'
My compsci history is a little fuzzy, but I think that lexical closures popped up in the 70s, a little while after the creation of LISP, and I believe they were first implemented in some (admittedly obscure) languages first.
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