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SyntheticElephant
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 Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:26 pm Post subject: Java 5.0 release |
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Java 5.0 was officially released today.
http://java.sun.com
A couple of neat additions to anyone interested.
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tcaudilllg
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| Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2004 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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FIVE!?!?!?
I thought that they'd just finished 1.4! :?
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biggerUniverse
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| LordGalbalan wrote: | FIVE!?!?!?
I thought that they'd just finished 1.4! :? |
1.4 was considered java2. 1.5 is considered java5. It's an unprecedented jump for a major programming language's versioning.
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bay
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:26 am Post subject: |
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| biggerUniverse wrote: | | LordGalbalan wrote: | FIVE!?!?!?
I thought that they'd just finished 1.4! :? |
1.4 was considered java2. 1.5 is considered java5. It's an unprecedented jump for a major programming language's versioning. |
its much like other products tho, i think they did it with solaris maybe too?
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tcaudilllg
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 10:23 am Post subject: |
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It seems to me like just a new set of conventions for doing things that replace older ones.... Just an excuse to retrain.
Fun to experiment with, these new fangled "innovations", but are they really useful...? Seems like hype to me.
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SyntheticElephant
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| Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:08 pm Post subject: |
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Autoboxing/unboxing and typesafe enumerations have already proved useful in a lot of code I've written for my java RPG. I'm sure templates would be useful if I had the motivation to go back through and rewrite all my Collection based code.
It definitely makes code less verbose.
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