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Java just has a slow to adapt ecosystem, and that slowness seeps into everything Java touches. The fact that it's 2014 and there is no Java Repl highlights this.

Java is FINALLY adding Lambda functions (a lackluster implementation at that), but guess what? There already exist billions of lines of code written in "noun based" Java.

Our shop has a client that refuses to upgrade from Java 5. There's no chance in hell this project sees a Lambda.

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Not just lambda functions, but functions period.

Java through 1.7 does not even have functions, the closest thing you can get is to write a class and give it a static method (which of course is not a closure).

AFAIK in Java 1.8 you still cannot define or call functions outside of a class. So it's still "noun based."

I find that as incredible as a FPL not containing an implementation of OOP

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