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Tiger Declared a Huge Success

Jan 18 2005, 02:46:03 PM PST »Java
I just heard it through the grapevine: Revenge of The <T>. When people make such an effort, Tiger must be a huge success :-)

Back from vacation

Jan 05 2005, 05:52:41 PM PST »Java Comments [3]
I'm fresh back from vinter break in Denmark. It turns out that I'm not too good at taking time off; I spent some time implementing my most wanted wildcard bugs. Hopefully, I will be able to close these bugs soon: 5034571 6207912.

Getting the point?

Nov 12 2004, 07:47:25 PM PST »Java
Today I had the great misfortune to con-call in on a talk given by Professor Suad Alagic, University of Southern Maine.

This guy is having a hard time getting over the fact that his solution for adding generic types to the JavaTM Programming Language didn't win. On his continuing rampage to discredit the winning proposal type erasure (GJ), he visited the Eastern labs only to reveal that he has no clue about the problems type erasure is addressing.

Lacking innovations of his own, he now is trying to make a career out of stating the obvious (not having full reification is bad for reflection and serialization) and presenting half-backed solutions that any graduate student can produce. Furthermore, he seems proud of not having read the latest Java Language Specification.

Neal Gafter has explained why Sun went with erasure: Puzzling Through Erasure: answer section. My question to the good doctor is if Neal Gafter can state the problems so clearly, how come you can be a Professor and not even grasp them? I dare you to present a reified solution that achieves backwards compatibility and migration compatibility.

Chat on New Language Features

Oct 15 2004, 10:16:55 PM PDT »Java
Scott and I chatted on new language features, the transcript is here: http://java.sun.com/developer/community/chat/JavaLive/2004/jl1012.html.
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