Des Traynor did a little post about how languages are not all the same, and Jeff Atwood jumped in with a C# version. Java came out looking really bad at 15 lines for a simple program, but frankly, the reason isn’t because of Java; it’s because of the coding styles used.
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Looking back over the notes from the Dev Day I took, I was reminded of a feature that I would have liked to have seen in 1.5: named parameters.
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I’ve cleared up a question I didn’t get answered at the Developer Day; the syntax for using annotations.
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I saw a post on Dion Almaer’s blog on named parameters, and I thought I’d add my 2 cents worth.
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Software is too expensive to build cheaply.... 