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Have a Nice Steaming Cup of Java 5

Posted by michael on from the milk-and-sugar dept.

wap writes "The language/VM/religion that everyone loves to hate is now serving another cup: Java 1.5 is ready for download. The new features of 1.5 have been discussed here before. I, for one, welcome our new virtual machine overlord. I have been using the release candidate, and startup times are noticeably faster, as is overall performance, and the new features like typesafe collections and static imports are great to have. Let the Java flames begin!"

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  1. Thanks to our supporters by NoInfo · · Score: 5, Funny

    "This release was made possible by our world-wide development community.

    Oh, yeah, and ridiculously large settlement payments by Microsoft."

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    1. Re:Thanks to our supporters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      You forgot to add "Netcraft confirms it - Java is dying" onto the end. But not a bad effort for a beginner troll.

  2. Passe... by gowen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you know, we don't hate Java anymore. These days we all love Java due to its major new feature -- its not C#

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  3. I just got my copy... by melted+keyboard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now let the slashdotting commence!

  4. Stealing my tongue by mukund · · Score: 4, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new virtual machine overlord.

    Dude you know you are not supposed to say these things in the story itself.

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  5. Ad seen on Monster today by phyruxus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Java Developer needed. Must have 3+ years experience with Java 1.5, to start immediately.

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  6. Re:I wait! -- you mean... by scovetta · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean 1.5.1_03.1

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  7. Re:How long will the MacOS X release take? by BorgCopyeditor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shouldn't that be: "Hot Tiger-on-Tiger Action"? The spokesmen will of course be Siegfried and Roy.

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