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Backward compatibility - you could run an application that uses generics, introduced in Java 1.5, on a Java 1.4 VM. At the time that was pretty amazing. These d
by ZoFreX 12y ago
Backward compatibility - you could run an application that uses generics, introduced in Java 1.5, on a Java 1.4 VM. At the time that was pretty amazing. These days, with so many backward compatibility-breaking changes being introduced, it doesn't feel so great.
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- mcculley 12y agoThat was the original plan, but it never worked in my experience. The compiler as shipped required that -source 1.5 use -target 1.5. So hobbling the language this way served no benefit in the end.