Back in March I was scheduled to give a talk at the NYJavaSIG about the functional features of the Java, Groovy, and Kotlin programming languages. I intended to discuss basic streams, lambdas, and method references in all three languages, and then look at more advanced functional features like trampolining, closure composition, and memoization.

Unfortunately, I was unable to attend, and I asked the inimitable Venkat Subramaniam to fill in for me, which, I am assured, he capably did. I gave him my slides and my code and expected him to do the speaker equivalent of presentation karaoke, but no, he threw everything away and live-coded it all instead, as he does.

I'm back now to clean up the mess he left behind. Please come and see as I go to great lengths to avoid becoming the Java speaker equivalent of Wally Pipp.

You're New Yorkers, so presumably, you get that reference, but if not, I'll explain it during the talk.  🙂 

Note from our meeting host Microsoft:  Photo ID and either your Vax card (image ok) or you have to sign an attestation that you've taken a COVID test in the past seven days.

Pizza/refreshments courtesy of Microsoft.  Thanks for supporting the Java community!