Software Craft

The main theme of Java 8 is lambdas. I have noticed that for many Java programmers lambdas are pretty tough material. So let’s try to get a basic understanding of them. Read more

Wow! Those were seven exciting weeks following a wonderful journey through seven fantastic languages, each with their own specialties. To three of the languages I was completely blank, with the other four I was (a bit) familiar. Read more

Haskell is the seventh language in the book. It is a pure functional language, so functions have no side effects. This makes it easier to reason about the code. Read more

Clojure is one of my favorite languages of the moment. Although I haven’t used it for real work yet, I enjoy the simplicity of the language and syntax. So with a week full of Clojure exercises I am in for a joyful week! Read more

Erlang! The language of concurrency, and much more. It’s the first actual functional language from the book, although not purely functional. Read more

It’s a while ago since I last wrote some Scala code so this week was fun picking it back up. Read more

Prolog is the first language that completely gets me out of my comfort zone and brought me back to noob. Prolog is a pretty amazing language that at first makes you wonder how it knows so much. Read more