Why I Completely Forgot That Programming Languages Have While Loops

I've recently made an embarassing discovery: https://twitter.com/lukaseder/status/757987329441234944 Yes. In all of my professional work with PL/SQL (and that has been quite a bit, in the banking industry), I have never really used a WHILE loop - at least not that I recall. The idea of a WHILE loop is simple, and it is available in … Continue reading Why I Completely Forgot That Programming Languages Have While Loops

3 Reasons why You Shouldn’t Replace Your for-loops by Stream.forEach()

Awesome! We're migrating our code base to Java 8. We'll replace everything by functions. Throw out design patterns. Remove object orientation. Right! Let's go! Wait a minute Java 8 has been out for over a year now, and the thrill has gone back to day-to-day business. A non-representative study executed by baeldung.com from May 2015 … Continue reading 3 Reasons why You Shouldn’t Replace Your for-loops by Stream.forEach()