Thanks for the comments Harvey. You wrote: "Not really, you can opt-out and not use the new features if you don't want to.....or just move on, there's no shortage these days of new languages Ruby, C#....etc."
I'm slowly picking up Generics. I like the concept behind them but must admit I'm not using them to their full potential. I'm just scared about what else is going to show up. :] I don't want to move to another language, because it would be a lot of work to port OpenJUMP. :] The Sunburned Surveyor On Jan 31, 2008 2:24 PM, Harvey Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:11 -0800, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > > Here is an interesting blog post about Java 7: > > > > http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/09/will_java_7_be_beautiful.php > > > > It mentions a proposal to add something called "closures" to Java. I'm > > still trying to figure out how to use Generics. :] This makes me > > wonder if the Java programming language will reach a point where it > > becomes to complex. What happens when you need 4 years of university > > education to learn the language? > > > > Will a simplified version or subset of Java emerge, or will people > > start to migrate to a new language? > > Personally I think C# did a lot of this stuff right and Java is adding > a lot of ugly crap to catch up. > > See: C# 'using' keyword, C# generics (much nicer to use), and delegates. > > I understand why they went the way the did with Java generics, as they > wanted to keep to bytecode backward compatible, doesn't mean it had to > be that ugly though. > > > > > Can a simplified subset of Java even exist, since programming > > libraries written in Java will start to adopt the new features added > > to the language. > > They are very good about keeping things ABI-compatible in the Java world > and most of the new features I would hope people wouldn't explicitly > expose them in an API, at least if they have any sense of good taste. > > > > > Does this worry anyone else? > > Not really, you can opt-out and not use the new features if you don't > want to.....or just move on, there's no shortage these days of new > languages Ruby, C#....etc. > > > Cheers, > > Harvey > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
