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zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Nov 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Do you still use UML?

> Modern features like lambdas

"Modern" as in "Introduced to programming languages 35 years before the invention of UML, finally turning up in Java 20 years after the invention of UML"?

qznc on Nov 5, 2016 [–]

Yes. Why did the functional programming people need so long to convince the rest of the benefits?

zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Nov 5, 2016 | [–]

For the same reason that it always takes conservative people long to understand the benefits of what they are fighting against?

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