> I guess I knew it was possible, but was never convinced of it by any concrete code. The standard library, for example, is horrifyingly bad. Between your comm

> I guess I knew it was possible, but was never convinced of it by any concrete code. The standard library, for example, is horrifyingly bad. Between your comment about Android and this one, it looks like your problem is much more with the Java API's than Java itself. Besides, I disagree: the Java collections are fairly solid with the right mix of abstraction and efficiency. Compare with those of Scala, for example, which require a lot more work before they become decent.