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Re:James Gosling, the ‘Father of Java,’ joins Amazon Web Ser... by nickbauman on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:34PM (#14402671)
One word: Clojure.
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Re:James Gosling, the ‘Father of Java,’ joins Amazon Web Ser... by Pxtl on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @12:37PM (#14402705)
Absolutely. The JVM is great, and JVM languages like Kotlin and Clojure. Even modern Java is a good language. I'm not arguing that Java hasn't come into its own as a good language. My point is that the Java I cut my teeth on? "Java 2"? That was bad.
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