Well they only took a subset (some 2,514 classes for Android 2.1), the stuff that made sense! Contrast that with the modern JRE (some 17,378 classes for JDK6).
On Sep 28, 12:59 pm, Miroslav Pokorny <miroslav.poko...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Because forking means you are required to drag along the gigantic tail > > of legacy. I respect Google for having the guts to reboot the whole > > thing occasionally, it's pragmatic. However I doubt they will be doing > > their own IDE from scratch, not initially anyway. > > Which is why they took Harmony with all its legacy and used it to build > Android...I guess legacy is bad, after all look at the Oracle thing(tm). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@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.
