I had to laugh when I saw this. It made me think of the Joshua Bloch interview in Coders at Work: > Seibel: I was reading Java Puzzlers and Effective Java and

I had to laugh when I saw this. It made me think of the Joshua Bloch interview in Coders at Work: > Seibel: I was reading Java Puzzlers and Effective Java and it struck me that there are a lot of little weird corners for a language that started out so simple. > Bloch: There are weird corners, yes, but that's just a fact of life; all languages have them. You haven't seen a book called C Puzzlers. Why not? > Seibel: Because it's all puzzlers. > Bloch: Yep. It would take up a shelf. In Java, the puzzlers are worth collecting precisely because you think of it as a simple language. Every language has its corner cases and Java has few enough that they're for the most part fun and interesting. Interesting, maybe. But I hope people are not using all of these. [0] [0] http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exit-status.html http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/exit-status.html