On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 07:18:44AM -0700, Vince O'Sullivan wrote: > I came away from the podcast thinking that Project Coin was rejecting > all change proposals on the grounds that they were either, a) too big, > or b) too small; and that the two ranges appeared to overlap. > Reminded me somewhat of the French Academy, set to originally to > modernise the lanuage, it eventually morphed it's role into that of > preserving the language from outside influence.
Nah, it seemed to me more like the Goldilocks selection algorithm: large enough to be useful to a significant number of people, but not so large that they won't get in to Java 7[1]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldilocks_phenomenon -Dom [1] Please excuse the double negative. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
