Joshua Marinacci wrote: > For being written in the early 90s I think the std libs are pretty > good. By comparison the C world was still using things like creat > (ENDLESS_CONSTANTS_YOU_CANT_REMEMBER_HERE). The bar on standard libs > has been raised in the last 15+ years *because* the Java runtime was > so good. > Apart from the fact that thinking only of bad examples is not a good way to judge the runtime libraries on the whole (for instance, the concurrency stuff is pretty good), I agree that the time contextualization is indeed importantIt's true that there are so many bad examples, but I also recall that several years ago (circa 2000) was pretty common to use the same runtime as good programming practices. It's that we're constantly raising the bar (fortunately).
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