I'm *not* surprised that he didn't mention the Date and Calendar APIs. He should have, but I'm not surprised he didn't. I'm also not surprised that he failed to mention primitives and arrays.
His response to this whole question was a terrible cop out. It's clear that James doesn't really regret anything about Java's initial design. It reminded me of a job candidate who, when asked what is his biggest flaw, replies with "I work too hard"; i.e. he is either unwilling or unable to admit any flaws at all. In fairness it would be very interesting to ask the same question of Odersky about Scala, Matz about Ruby etc. Neil On Dec 4, 1:23 am, Greg Reddin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Miroslav Pokorny > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Don't forget his name is on top of java.util.Date > > I was surprised he didn't mention the Date and Calendar API as one of > his regrets. > > Greg -- 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.
