Primitive streams

Doug Lea dl at cs.oswego.edu
Sat Dec 29 10:38:06 PST 2012


On 12/29/12 13:00, Remi Forax wrote:

> Now, I dislike fused operations because it goes against the DRY principle, the
> stream interface should be as simple as possible,

Two different reactions:

1. Why do Streams combine function composition and aggregate computation
when it would be simpler not to?
(answer: prettier look-and-feel?)

2. Why does every other map-reduce framework support mapReduce?
(answer: to reflect the fact that map-reduce is a fused concept for
most people?)

-Doug



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