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Streams is an universal concept not specific to any particular language. It originates from ancient Unix, most famously the stdout and stdin streams. And so they exist in pretty much any "C family"...
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Lundin
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2024-09-17T13:30:03Z (about 1 month ago)
Streams is an universal concept not specific to any particular language. It originates from ancient Unix, most famously the stdout and stdin streams. And so they exist in pretty much any "C family" programming language and probably in a lot of other languages as well.- What makes Java stand out is the outright ridiculous amount of different streams available, implemented as abstraction layers. Making a tag per Java stream would probably be way too detailed, but I'm not sure any users will find their way to some generic "java-stream" tag. Perhaps instead create tags with names corresponding to commonly used libraries, such as `java.util.stream`?
- Streams is an universal concept not specific to any particular language. It originates from ancient Unix, most famously the stdout and stdin streams. And so they exist in pretty much any "C family" programming language and probably in a lot of other languages as well. Therefore `stream` is not a useful name and having Java as parent tag would be plain wrong.
- What makes Java stand out is the outright ridiculous amount of different streams available, implemented as abstraction layers. Making a tag per Java stream would probably be way too detailed, but I'm not sure any users will find their way to some generic "java-stream" tag. Perhaps instead create tags with names corresponding to commonly used libraries, such as `java.util.stream`?
#1: Initial revision
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Lundin
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2024-09-17T13:29:20Z (about 1 month ago)
Streams is an universal concept not specific to any particular language. It originates from ancient Unix, most famously the stdout and stdin streams. And so they exist in pretty much any "C family" programming language and probably in a lot of other languages as well. What makes Java stand out is the outright ridiculous amount of different streams available, implemented as abstraction layers. Making a tag per Java stream would probably be way too detailed, but I'm not sure any users will find their way to some generic "java-stream" tag. Perhaps instead create tags with names corresponding to commonly used libraries, such as `java.util.stream`?