On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Fabrizio Giudici < [email protected]> wrote:
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 9/8/10 19:11 , Mario Fusco wrote: > > Hi Ricky, > > > > if you read the subject of my first email I wrote exactly the > > same. Mid 2012 as currently defined. > > > > What Mark calls plan B is to delivery the JDK 7 in mid 2011 but > > without Lambda, Jigsaw and part of Coin. That means it won't have > > any of the features they promised. To me this is unacceptable as > > well. > > > There are a few things that I don't understand. Well, that JDK 7 > delays doesn't surprise me either, considering the mess that was > already started under the last months of the Sun management. In > particular, the way closures were brought again on the carpet, without > a clear idea of what to do, was worrying. So, my question: > > 1. I thought that Jigsaw was pretty complete, and project Coin pretty > simple. So, what are the things preventing them from being ready soon? > 2. Why did Lambda restarted the discussion from scratch, just to > realize that there's nothing concrete, when there were already two > proposals that as far as I understand were formulated in very good > details? > > In any case, for what I see every day, none of my customers will be > minimally worried about that. But it will be another burst of FUD and > going on like that I don't know I'll be able to survive to the end of > the year :-( Unless I stop reading blogs and mailing list, and I go > out taking photos instead :-) Which might sounds as a good idea. > > > PS Scala guys should realize that this event is really putting a lot > of pressure on the Scala community. Now you have a window of 1.5 > years: if Scala doesn't manage to get popular before Java 7 is > released, there won't any more chances for Scala. It would mean that > people really don't care a bit about closures, lambda stuff and all > the other Scala stuff. > I for one welcome our new Scala overlords > - -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people > [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAkyH4oMACgkQeDweFqgUGxdhCgCePV7HcPsavz0MwLqTxkCheohy > LjMAn1B2046kk1BCThyc3myjaeyGCKif > =n0GT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Viktor Klang, Code Connoisseur Work: www.akkasource.com Code: github.com/viktorklang Follow: twitter.com/viktorklang Read: klangism.tumblr.com -- 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.
