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The Details of Oracle's JDK 7 and 8 'Plan B'
gkunene writes "Oracle has put Java 7 and 8 features up for Java Community approval, providing a clear indication of what the next two major versions of Java are likely to include. (Java 7 contents, Java 8 contents.) From the article: 'The JDK 7 and 8 JSRs represent Oracle's 'Plan B' approach for separating JDK 7 into two separate releases, splitting up features that were all originally intended for the Java 7 release. This approach is intended to help expedite new Java releases. Among the key components of the original Java 7 plan that are now set for inclusion in Java 8 are the Lambda and Jigsaw efforts. At JavaOne this year, Thomas Kurian, executive vice president, Oracle Product Development, explained that Lambda is all about bringing closures to the Java language. Kurian noted at the time that Lambda is intended to provide a more concise replacement for inner classes, as well as support automatically parallel operations on collections. Jigsaw is all about building modularity into the Java Virtual Machine.'"
Just the couple of folks still milling around the Oracle offices, the rest of the world is pondering this and Oracle's other missteps... let's face facts, most of the devs you'll ever see are all stuck on Java 4. Newcomers are right to start coding in C, Perl, Python, Assembly, Ruby, Erlang, Go and every other freely available language. Java is being decommissioned and will only be used as a benchmark for how wasteful a particular company is and how much more you can screw them... er, negotiate with them for a much larger salary.
Oh, you use Oracle DB, Solaris, AND Java... $$$^) let me adjust my salary requirements up a few dozen percent! Thank you, One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison! Suddenly, I'm charging a SHITLOAD more, while doing nothing more.
If your enterprise depends on Oracle, get ready for paying through the nose again when it's time to hire the Oraclly Inclined.
This is the NSA, we're gonna geet U h@x0r5! Also, what is a h@x0r5?
(note: you are NOT seeing real-time quotes... you are simply seeing quotes as they are made available to you... you are NOT executing trades instantly... they are executed after being processed and transmitted)
Your statements are grammatically correct. They also make sense. But whether I can get my quotes without some entity making these quotes available to me baffles my mind. How else would I be in position to obtain these quotes without someone availing them to me? You tell me sir.
Same logic applies to your second part: Of course some processor somewhere handles the data. This is obvious. When we say 'instantly' or 'rel-time', we are talking about the absence of the 'requirement to wait'.
'Wait' here, is a loaded word for there is a tiny time-lag between the time a trader clicks 'yes' to the return of a confirmed or unconfirmed transaction.
Now let's be serious please. I am sure you understand what I am talking about.
If anything, Java is going to be slower than most native languages
Care to name some examples? Please spare me .NET and C#. These two never existed in the late 90s.