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Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python by axod on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @11:26AM (#393081)
How does it need to evolve? Unlike a lot of languages, they got some things right from the start - Unicode for example.
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Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python by jmtulloss on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @04:32PM (#393505)
That's what this article was talking about, and the article the author wrote a few years ago (linked in this article) give even more reasons.
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Re: Java is Dead; Long Live Python by michaelneale on Wednesday December 10, 2008 @05:44PM (#393595)
I think the article makes sense. But I don't see why inner classes would have to go in the face of closures - they are simply a nested version of a existing structure - not really a new structure.
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