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Java 7: What's In It For Developers

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look-under-the-hood dept.

GMGruman writes "After five years of a torturous political process and now under the new ownership of Oracle, Java SE 7 is finally out (and its initial bugs patched in the Update 1 release). So what does it actually offer? Paul Krill surveys the new capabilities that matter most for Java developers, from dynamic language support to an improved file system."

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  1. Kill it Oracle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Oracle can't kill Java fast enough. Once it's dead we can go back to having actual competent people writing code rather than Java weenies who couldn't code themselves out of a paper sack without a VM to hold their hand.

    1. Re:Kill it Oracle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

      No, I think the Java weenies should be fired en masse and replaced by competent people. Then the Java weenies can work at the fry cook station which is more apt to their abilities as mouth breathers.

  2. Re:A language with a file system? by whiteboy86 · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bullshit feature or not, it is another cherry on Oracle's fooled execs' lunch pie.

  3. COBOL -Basic-Apple ][ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ah yes. The old "blame the language for the lack of a developer's skills" ploy. It's a sad carpenter who blames his tools for his incompetence. It's a sadder carpenter who blames a tool for other carpenters' incompetence.

    You tell'em AC!

    I once wrote an operating system in COBOL that was interpreted by Apple Basic. It was slick, man! The Apple ][ would boot up with its prom BASIC interpreter which would load the COBOL interpreter which would then load the OS that was written in COBOL! Man, it was AWESOME! (It is still starting up 'Hello World' which I started in 1984 butt ROCKS!) It PROVED with out a doubt that I was God's gift to CS AND Programming! Jim Gosling has an alter set up to me - he'll deny it, but he does! He prays to me on a daily basis as HIS personal God. I inspired him to write Java. Although, he couldn't achieve my Godliness, he tried with Java.

    He is a disappoint, though - he never measured up to Stroustrup. Although, Stroustrup is a disappoint with his bastard child, C++0X or whatever the fuck he calls his demon spawned shit.

    I will have to smite him with my COBOLx00xx0xxABCDx0 object oriented parallel quantum multidimensional language for light quantum parallel programming.

    I have said and will say, COBOL is the future of CS!