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   by loverde 13y ago

   P.S. There's a pretty good chance that Java will see an uptick again when JDK 1.8 finally lands. The lack of a concise format for closures is crippling Java in the midst of the current surge of functional programming idioms.
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   by loverde 13y ago

   >>Java in the 90s was a spectacular con job that millions of developers and managers bought hook, line, and sinker In the 90s, before Java, you had C/C++ dominating server based code that wasn't COBOL (Smalltalk tried to com
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   by loverde 15y ago

   It's easy to bash IDEs for their coddling effect, and there are some legitimate arguments against them. But looking up documentation is precisely one of the things that IDEs are much better at then text editors. Hover over some code and up