But 18 months after the release of 1.6, we got a major update. It's just that sun marketing screwed up versioning and called it 1.6u10 instead of 1.7.
Note that 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 all had pretty much zero changes to syntax (1.4 brought assert, 1.3 brought strictfp, that's as far as I know all). New java major version does not have to imply more language features. On Sep 1, 10:41 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > P.S.: JDK7 is late, but not massively, if you count the "JavaSE 6.5" > > release that was the 6uN project (not even complete at u10: Sun/Oracle > > continued to make important feature improvements in u14, u18, u21, now > > u23). Indeed, it's well known that the 6uN project diverted a ton of > > resources from other things, even more than JavaFX did. > > When I call it massively late, its because Sun, at the release of 1.6, > said 18 months until next major release. This also goes nice in hand > with history, with new major versions (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and > 1.6) arriving roughly every 2'nd > year:http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jdkreleasedates.html > > Btw. the closure debate has been raging for 3-4 years now, more or > less kickstarted by, then, Java luminary Bruce > Tate:http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-cb01097.html -- 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.
