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Re:Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit by slowmovintarget on Sunday March 22, 2015 @12:54AM (#9245650)
Well, he also has articles on tips for using Visual Age for Java, and a copyright notice starting in 1996, so perhaps this is yet another blast from the past that made it to HN's front page.

Because that particular argument used to be a thing.

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Re:Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit by jacquesm on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:17AM (#9245834)
Last-Modified: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 18:22:25 GMT
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Re:Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit by slowmovintarget on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:37AM (#9245871)
First version of the article is at least from 2002: http://web.archive.org/web/20020109181501/http://javadude.co...

Good that it's kept crisp.

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Re:Java is Pass-by-Value, Dammit by have_humility on Sunday March 22, 2015 @02:57AM (#9245911)
Utterly unreliable for determining the age of an article.
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