On Aug 6, 2009, at 6:39 AM, Fabrizio Giudici wrote:
> > 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). yep. And the concurrency stuff is some of the newest large API. It was added in 04 or 05 as I recall. > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > weblogs.java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/blog > [email protected] - mobile: +39 348.150.6941 > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
