Eric,

Your phrase is a bit convoluted, but I understand that you respectfully 
believe that brains and jobs are being sequestered in environments where 
Java 7 isn't installed. Right?

I respectfully disagree on various points:
- Java 5/6 with Guava strikes a very good balance between programmer 
productivity, legacy integration and codebase maintanability, I say this 
having well in mind the reality of people and systems I see around.
- making the best in a complex production environment is a good school of 
realism, professionality and effectiveness. seniority is not a mere sum of 
the languages and paradigms you can use
- if I think at different software production concepts, I am more confident 
about improving versioning/deployment mechanisms and client-side 
programming than starting to use lambdas on the server for the sake of it
- brain/job kidnapping happens all the time and is certainly not a direct 
consequence of the Java version used: it requires first of all the active 
agreement of the brain owner. I believe you gotta dig deeper before 
attempting seriously at judgements like that.

Having said all this, be it clear I am looking forward to Java 8 :-) I 
still kind of remember this thread was about a JS book, but please let me 
follow this train of thought...



On Monday, April 8, 2013 4:17:14 PM UTC+2, Eric Jablow wrote:

People whose customers have had their brains sequestered along with their 
> jobs.
>  
>

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