Posted by Arjan Blokzijl mid-afternoon: July 4th, 2009
I recently started reading Stuart Halloway’s book ‘Programming in Clojure’. I don’t think I will be writing much enterprise applications in that language in the near future, but it never hurts to broaden the mind, and it’s a very good read. In his book, he demonstrates some of the advantages of functional programming by taking an example from the Apache commons library: StringUtils.indexOfAny. He has also written a blog about it.
In this blog post, we’ll compare the original function in Java, the Clojure version and a Scala implementation.
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