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This is one of my favorite evergreen posts on HN. If there were posters of it, I'd buy one. So many good lines to choose from, but I'll just highlight this one today:

> Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them

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This one tickled me a lot

>Brad Cox and Tom Love create Objective-C, announcing "this language has all the memory safety of C combined with all the blazing speed of Smalltalk." Modern historians suspect the two were dyslexic.

But the entry for Java doesn't mention that it doesn't have Lambdas. I assume that the Java that is mentioned has them?

Java added lambdas in version 8, around 2013, after this was written. They probably omitted the lack of lambdas for the joke regarding C#, since it had lambdas since around 2007.

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