Project Lambda: Java Language Specification draft 0.1.5

[Neal Gafter]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Paul Benedict <pbenedict at apache.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the links. To offer my perspective, those who support the
> syntax don't appear to have a typical background -- usually those who
> are admitted language designers or are serious hobbyists about
> languages. If that sounds funny for a "lamda dev" mailing list,
> there's definitely a spread subscribed here based on responses.
> Nothing wrong with that. I just think those who opposed better
> represented the casual Java population. Not being a language designer
> myself, I empathize with their position.

Yes, I definitely see that point.  Experienced language developers are
often better able to judge how difficult a job it will be for
developers to internalize a language change based on experience with
other languages, while programmers often fear things that appear to be
different, even though that difference may improve their lot once they
begin using the feature.

In any case, this isn't a democracy.  We get to peek over the
shoulders of folks at Sun every now and then to see their progress.