Lucid Glitch

Java

2023

Emacs, Java, and the Finger-Twisting History Between Them (2023-09-18)

The unexpected historical overlap between Emacs, Java, and the people who shaped both.

2016

Functional Composition and Threading Calls in Java (2016-03-08)

Compose to get some flow in Java
Expressive Conditionals in Java - Reclaiming the 'if' expression (2016-03-06)

Replace noisy if statements in Java with expressive, composable alternatives. An implementation of the cond expression for java, similar to the ones in Lisps, using lambda expressions.

2015

Tail Call Recursion in Java (2015-10-08)

Tail calls in java using a trampoline

2012

Fibo (2012-12-18)

2005

Strings: Thread Safe at Last (2005-05-22)

Java String is finally thread safe

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