Java

Java has a rather sordid history with dates. In the beginning, Date was suppose to be the way to manage dates, which sounded rather logical. You could construct a Date from various component values (month, day, year and time), and internally it was measured as the number of milliseconds from epoch.
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Java has introduced Stream API as part of JDK 8. These can use a new set of classes from the java.util.stream package, and the idea is to support data operations on lists that you may have in memory. Developers would typically integrate these with lambda expressions to evaluate Collections using a functional operator.
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