Java 8 is released !

[Dr Heinz M. Kabutz]

Brilliant, thanks for your hard work.  Whenever I look at code nowadays I
see places where Java 8 features would have helped.

Heinz

On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

> Thanks Remi and others for all the kind words.  This has been an exciting
> journey!
>
> At the risk of patting ourselves on the back, I'm very pleased with what
> we've accomplished here.  When I started this project four years ago, the
> general sentiment in the community was fairly negative on the prospects for
> Java's future (or Oracle's ability to be a good steward for Java).  While
> my primary goal was building the Java that I wanted to program in -- while
> remaining true to Java's core principles -- I must confess that my
> secondary goal was also making all the doubters have to eat their words.
>  I'm pretty happy today on both counts.
>
> So many people helped make Lambda what it is; I can't possibly list them
> all, but I appreciate all of their contributions, from the members of the
> JSR-335 Expert Group [1] to my teammates at Oracle who contributed to the
> design and implementation [2] to the many folks in the community who
> participated in shaping this vision.
>
> We've accomplished something really great here.  Now, let's go out and
> spread the word!
>
>
>
> [1] IBM (Dan Heidinga), Google (Josh Bloch, Kevin Bourrillion), JetBrains
> (Andrey Breslav, Anna Kozlova), Red Hat (David Lloyd), Goldman-Sachs
> (Vladimir Zakharov, Don Raab), Doug Lea, Bob Lee, Remi Forax, and Sam
> Pullara.
>
> [2] Dan Smith, Maurizio Cimadamore, Vicente Romero, Joe Darcy, Alex
> Buckley, Joel Franck, Robert Field, Jon Gibbons, Mike Duigou, Paul Sandoz,
> Henry Jen, Mark Reinhold, Guy Steele, Jean-Baptiste Tristan, John Rose,
> Karen Kinnear, Keith McGuigan, Sergey Kuksenko, and Aleksey Shipilev.
>
> Apologies if these lists are incomplete (as they almost surely are!)
>
>
> On 3/18/2014 3:11 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
>
>> As you all know, Java 8 is now released with lambdas as a preeminent
>> feature.
>>
>> I want to personally thank every each of you that have contributed to
>> that list taking time to read the different drafts, test the betas,
>> report bugs, etc.
>> We all together have created something amazing, something huge,
>> something monumental as Mark said.
>>
>> I will never meet all of you in person, but please don't hesitate to
>> come to me saying that you are one of us,
>> I own you a beer, at least.
>>
>> thank you,
>> Rémi
>>
>>
>>
>

-- 
Dr Heinz M. Kabutz (PhD CompSci)
Author of "The Java(tm) Specialists' Newsletter"
Sun/Oracle Java Champion 2005-2013
JavaOne Rockstar Speaker 2012
http://www.javaspecialists.eu
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