Christian Catchpole wrote: > On Dec 12, 5:33 am, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Overall conservative language evolution does not equal language death. >> Some of us have better things to do than chase every shiny new kitchen >> sink :-) >> > Maybe you are right, but it's such a waste of everyone's energy. > Discussing and developing proposals. If Sun just said "Java is > frozen" then we could all move on. > Conservative evolution != frozen either.
That said, I don't believe they handled the closures proposals well at all. There was really /no/ open or timely feedback about the BGGA proposal, for instance. No one was well served by this. I think they needed to take the time to give it serious thought and give an open, timely, and thoughtful answer to the proposal. Not finding the time to give such consideration to proposals on which so much effort was obviously expended was a really bad step on Sun's part. In my book this mis-step is what's really wasted so much energy and led to so much FUD about Java's language evolution. -- Jess Holle --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" 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/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
