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The Java team is very conservative in building out new language features- they find the things that have been battle tested in the wider language space, and tak
by cbm-vic-20 4y ago
The Java team is very conservative in building out new language features- they find the things that have been battle tested in the wider language space, and take their lessons and adapt them into Java features. IMO this is a good thing. If it's "stealing" then every other language is "stealing" from each other, too.
- margorczynski 4y agoJava, the Debian of programming languages. I guess that would make Scala like Arch and Haskell - Gentoo?
- cutler 4y agoIt's a pity they never stole quotemata() from Perl instead of having to escape regex metacharacters.