On 4 December 2010 15:28, Neil Bartlett <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > We did :) Martin still remains uncertain the XML literals were a good call, I believe he's also concerned about the way higher-kinded types are being blogged about in a manner that justifies allegations of complexity. Interestingly, he *doesn't* regret the high proportion of Scala quirks that are entirely due to backwards compatibility, mostly because there are bigger fish to fry... > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
