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Hey, it's only been 17 years.

• rforax 14y ago
  yes, for a long time, anonymous classes was enough, verbose but enough.
  • eslaught 14y ago
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit
    • rforax 14y ago
      More a feature tar pit, yes.
• factorizer 14y ago
  In which Java basically has taken over the world of enterprise programming. Contrary to fringe languages like Haskell and the like.
  • karterk 14y ago
    Not everything that grows like weed is necessarily awesome. Just saying.
  • batgaijin 14y ago
    Java forces you to write code in a pretty readable/static manner. Of course you can write 'bad' Java, but the point is that Java limits expressiveness so that YOU are replaceable/won't introduce memory issues. That's the whole point of using Java in the enterprise. To be clear, I'm not saying anything bad about the JVM.
  • mikeash 14y ago
    Kind of like how Windows basically took over the world of PC computing?