It's me. The guy that says: Give me closures, or give me death. Any sort of closures, really.
And I'm okay with this announcement; there ARE language changes (for a while there it looked like the language itself wouldn't change at all). There are quite a few of them. Including a fairly big one: Taking modularization seriously. We'll have to see if the result is OSGi, roughly as good as OSGi, or filled with boneheaded mistakes that a mere look at OSGi would have solved (that last one would be bad, but I doubt that's going to happen. The topic is taken a bit too seriously for that to be likely IMO). Between JavaFX and modularization I totally get it. It's disappointing, sure. But 'java is dying'? Oh please. Drama queens. On Dec 11, 10:12 pm, "Van Riper" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Jess Holle <[email protected]> wrote: > > sherod wrote: > > > Wow. You've just summarized the last 12 months of popular topics on > > the group in three lines :) > > > Well one side of the topics at any rate. > > > Overall conservative language evolution does not equal language death. > > Some of us have better things to do than chase every shiny new kitchen sink > > :-) > > I agree with Jesse, but, I do understand the disappointment of some folks > here about the new feature dearth in the next release. On my own relatively > small projects in comparison, it is my personal experience that a major > refactoring of an existing code base for modular extension is best done > separate from major feature additions. Why should it be any different for a > project as large as the JDK? > > Cheers, Van > > -- > | Michael "Van" Riper > |http://weblogs.java.net/blog/van_riper/ > |http://www.linkedin.com/in/vanriper > ---- > | Silicon Valley Web JUG > | mailto:[email protected] > |https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net > ---- > | Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group > | mailto:[email protected] > |http://sv-gtug.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
