On 10/29/07, Bryan Sant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's going away in Java 7. No more checked exceptions.
Poor java, always one version away from not sucking. Maybe if the Python and Ruby and Haskell and Erlang communities stopped all development for five or six years Java could catch up. But probably not; C# started at rough parity and leaves Java farther behind every year. Now that I'm writing Java again I have to wonder what planet Bryan is on where "it's tolerable because I use Eclipse to autogenerate the boilerplate!" Eclipse is the sorriest waste of thousands of man-hours that I've ever seen. (Obviously I'm not a militant Java hater or I wouldn't have taken a job writing it, but the kind of mental gymnastics you'd have to go through to keep pretending to yourself that Java stands at the pinnacle of language evolution and the next release will only raise the bar higher boggles my mind.) -Jonathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
