> Bruce Eckel complaining about the tendency of new features in Java to > complicate things and saying that if we want new features we should > all shift to a new language. Anyone got any thoughts on this?
yes, i blogged on it, indirectly - http://weblogs.java.net/blog/evanx/archive/2008/01/the_ide_is_the_1.html bruce eckel seems to be banging on about how python, flex, scala or whatever is so great and java is now such rubbish - so personally i want to smash his stupid face in! ;) i have mixed thoughts about language changes, but i would dearly love to have properties eg. toolable "property literals" and baked-in observability ie. for firing property change events, without the messy boilerplate we have now - altho AOP can be used to address this in many cases - but ja, property literals, eg. for beans binding, i would love to have in my IDE and the end of the day, i think competition between C# and java is what is driving language changes, and i think java should keep pace with C#, and fight to remain competitive as a sexy cutting-edge language to compete against C#, ruby, scala e ----------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using Obsidian SWiTCH web-mail. Obsidian SWiTCH - an Obsidian Systems company. (0860) 055-911 - http://www.switch-it.co.za/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CTJUG Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CTJUG-Forum For the ctjug home page see http://www.ctjug.org.za -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
