https://riley.thecsillags.com/categories/functional/ Recent content in Functional on about:rileycsillag fka drewcsillag Hugo en-us Mon, 26 May 2014 09:23:52 -0400 https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2014-05-26-quicksort-and-java-8/ Mon, 26 May 2014 09:23:52 -0400 https://riley.thecsillags.com/posts/2014-05-26-quicksort-and-java-8/ <p>In looking at functional languages, I&rsquo;ve often been impressed with the clarity of implementations of Quicksort. Now that Java 8 includes lambdas, we can now do one that, while not as nice as an implementation in, say Haskell, is still quite nice.</p> <p>While I wouldn&rsquo;t use the below code in production, as it&rsquo;s choice of pivot point is naive and would go kaboom on a large sorted list from stack exhaustion, it is a nice illustration of the utility and clarity that Java 8&rsquo;s lambdas when mixed with Guava functional stuff give.</p>