33rd Degree 2014 - The Joy of Functional Programming - Venkat Subramaniam

It's been around for a long time, but everyone's talking about it all of a sudden. But why and why now? We've been programming in languages like Java for a while, quite well. Now we're asked to change and the languages themselves are changing towards this style of programming. In this keynote, a passionate polyglot programmer and author of "Functional Programming in Java: Harnessing the Power of Java 8 Lambda Expressions" will share the reasons we need to make the paradigm shift and the pure joy—the benefits—we will reap from it.