Internal Iterations in Java 8
Most of us learned in school to program in an imperative/structural/procedural way. Object oriented programming is also a type of procedural paradigm. In that context, when we are working with collections, we are iterating through them with some kind of for or for-each loops. We are telling the program how to perform the iteration and (within the loop) what do to with each processed element from the collection. Those is called external iteration. On the other side, in languages which support functional programming, you should focus only on ‘what’ and the underlying collection will take care of ‘how’ to perform iteration. Those are called internal iterations.