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Also known as: gafter
Neal Gafter works for Microsoft on the evolution of the .NET platform languages.He also has been known to Kibbitz on the evolution of the Java language.Neal was granted an OpenJDK Community Innovators' Challenge award for his design andimplementation of lambda expressions for Java.He was previously a software engineer at Google working on Google Calendar, and a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he co-designed and implemented the Java language features in releases . through .. Neal is coauthor of "Java Puzzlers Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases" (Addison Wesley, ). He was a member of the C Standards Committee and led the development of C and C compilers at Sun Microsystems, Microtec Research, and Texas Instruments. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester.
