> Where coin went a bit wrong, I think, is in how you required more work > from the community than what you require internally. I presume when > (outside of coin) sun employees decide on java features to add to the > language, they first do some analysis of which ones are worth it, pick > one, nail down with decent certainty that this feature WILL be in the > next release, and only then do the work of writing up specs and > prototypes.
Oh, if only it were that easy! I once spent an entire *week* on a 3 line *bug fix* for the Windows Look and Feel only to have to *remove it* later due to backwards compatibility breakage. The work required on language changes is far far greater, and the cost of compatibility far more challenging. It's just not easy doing software engineering on something that must be used, compatibly, on nearly a billion computers. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
