F.R.E.S.H Edward's Weblog

I bet many of you have read Joshua Bloch's poem about Tiger. So how about a audio version of it? ;-)

For your convenience, I also post the poem here:

Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright
Like a geek who works all night
What new-fangled bit or byte
Could ease the hacker's weary plight?

To the most despised cast
We'll bid a fond farewell at last
With generics' burning spear
The need for cast will disappear

While Iterators have their uses
They sometimes strangle us like nooses
With enhanced-for's deadly ray
Iterator's kept at bay

When from collections ints are drawn
Wrapper classes make us mourn
When Tiger comes, we'll shed no tears
We'll autobox them in the ears

The int-enum will soon be gone
like a foe we've known too long
With typesafe-enum's mighty power
Our foe will bother us no more

And from the constant interface
we shall inherit no disgrace
With static import at our side,
our joy will be unqualified

O joyless nights, o joyless days
Our programs cluttered with arrays
With varargs here, we needn't whine;
We'll simply put the args inline

And as for noble metadata
I'll have to sing its praises later
Its uses are so numerous
To give their due, I'd miss the bus

Tiger, Tiger burning bright
Like a geek who works all night
What new-fangled bit or byte
Could ease the hacker's weary plight?