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yeah, it's kinda hilarious. Notch has been bashed before cause he didn't write the code to the "Java Community Standards". It gets rewritten more towards the

• eropple 12y ago
  Well, no. Those standards exist for a reason. For the overwhelming majority ofJVM projects, they are a wise set of choices. Having seen his work, and his tendency to reinvent the wheel (his original iteration of the Minecraft website used flat files for storage, which is really weird when you're writing Java and H2 is right there), I don't think he's a terribly good Java programmer. Gets stuff done, but doesn't work Smart, to use a Spolskyism. He happened to be right in this case. And that's cool, but throwing away best practices so contemptuously because they aren't applicable in corner cases is at best foolish.