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No, there are serious deficiencies in the language, and I've had to work around them in fairly lamentable ways. The only disadvantage of amending it (from my po

• axod 18y ago
  What sort of deficiencies? I think all in all java (the original spec) was a pretty well thought out design. It's not like several other languages that have to go and add unicode support on later as an afterthought.
  • mynameishere 18y ago
    new Thread() { public void run() { System.out.println("I'm in a Thread"); } }.start(); In C#: new Thread (Go).start(); static void Go() { Console.Writeln("I'm in a Thread"); } ...C# isn't especially elegant either, but the general uncleanliness of inner anonymous classes is one example of Java's problems.
    • prospero 18y ago
      The C# version would actually be: new Thread(() => Console.WriteLine("I'm in a Thread")).Start();
      • axod 18y ago
        Silly example though, as threads are silly.
        • prospero 18y ago
          Is it really silly? Almost all the code I write day to day is either multi-threaded or event-driven, so the above difference means a very real improvement in my quality of life. The code is simpler, more compact, and easier to understand at a glance months later. This isn't the only difference, either. C# is never going to be as terse as a scripting language, but with each release they are examining common workflows and streamlining them. Java may be adding in a lot of new features, but the syntactic integration seems awkward at best. The little things count for a lot.