On Fri, 12 Aug 2005 11:38:00 -0600, "Stuart Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 10:18 -0700, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > > Er, no. A primary design goal of Java, that was largely delivered on, > > was to be more orthogonal (i.e., have Less Ways To Do It) than C++. > > And then they discovered it was too restricted so the language had to be > modified in ways that now feel slightly unnatural in order to > accommodate reasonably frequent idioms.
More like, Microsoft started talking about how great generics were so the Java guys copied them without thinking hard enough. -Jonathan .-----------------------------------. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `-----------------------------------'
