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Podcast: airhacks.fm podcast with adam bien
Episode: From Java 8 Lambdas, Streams, Spliterators, to Default Methods
Description: An airhacks.fm conversation with Stuart Marks (@stuartmarks) about:
the history of the Teletype Model 33 and punched paper tape,
Telex service and long-distance communication costs,
the connection between TTY and the teletype company name,
110 baud modems and 10 characters per second transmission,
Wang Laboratories field offices connected via Telex,
the evolution from Java Enumeration to Iterator to Iterable,
Vector.elements() and the absence of an Enumerable interface,
the introduction of Iterator and Iterable in JDK 1.2 and 1.5 respectively,
the legacy collections Vector and Hashtable and their method-level synchronization overhead,
Java 8 lambdas and streams as the major language feature,
default methods enabling compatible...