On Sunday, 29 July 2012 at 08:34:33 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
On Sun, 2012-07-29 at 04:59 +0200, Era Scarecrow wrote:
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It does do low-level bit manipulation for built-in types,
however I think that's it's limit.
There are no unsigned types which leads to extremely ugly bit
manipulation codes.
Primitive types are now effectively deprecated in Java, and
this is
likely a deprecation which will actually lead to a removal –
unlike
everything else in Java that has been deprecated which is still
there.
Sun did one time actually remove something from a Java release
but there
was such an outcry that it got put back in. Sadly it should
never have
been taken out in the first place. Unlike all the stuff that
has been
deprecated for >10 years which should have gone long ago.
I like Java, but currently have a few issues with the some of the
design decisions after Java 5, namely the overuse of annotations
instead of adding new keywords. Examples are @Overload, @Checked,
@NotNull, @Null, or worse the possible @Value annotation.
I mean, use @Value to specify a class with value semantics,
really?! Is it that complicated to add struct as keyword?
Nowadays I find myself having more fun with C#, a language I used
to criticise as being a cheap Java clone back in 2001. How things
change.
--
Paulo
