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Re:A performance comparison between Java and C on the Nexus 5 by rsynnott on Thursday April 17, 2014 @11:38AM (#7604252)
Of course, in Java, this would look like (at best, using a third party thing):

ImmutableMap.builder().put("my key", 123).build();

Which hardly seems neater (especially in a more realistic case where you have more than one entry).

Re:A performance comparison between Java and C on the Nexus 5 by pjmlp on Thursday April 17, 2014 @01:44PM (#7605064)
The point was the pain to type @ in keyboards other than US.