A language with 100 outdated features almost nobody uses anymore
because they are obscure or simply not really needed anymore due to
optimisations, is a bad language.
On Nov 12, 6:13 am, Casper Bang wrote:
> > Exception C# (the language) will be stuck with it.
>
> How so? Why does the fact that y
Well, cheers to you for taking an active stance, at any rate.
On Nov 12, 5:53 pm, Puybaret wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since Oracle and Apple announced OpenJDK Project for Mac OS X and Java
> SE 6 support for Mac OS X Lion on November 12, 2010, JKoala isn't
> required anymore and won't go further. Therefore
This is good news. Lets hope Oracle continues to do the right
thing.
On Nov 12, 6:54 am, Chris Adamson wrote:
> Dalibor just tweeted a link to this:
>
> http://blogs.oracle.com/henrik/2010/11/oracle_and_apple_announce_open...
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I and a lot of people I know have a love/hate relationship with the X
Window System. There are lots of things about X11 that I don't miss
when I'm not using it.
X11 inspires a lot of gratitude, however. I think it's been about 20
years I've used it off an on and I've been able to rely on it to g
A couple brain cells just clicked together and I remembered what event
happened four years ago, today. Namely, the OpenJDK project was
launched on Nov 13, 2006 (which was a Monday).
In May 2007 I wrote a blog post during JavaOne at which the rest of
the OpenJDK project was launched ... and decid
It's fair if users automatically get those components when they need
them, and if that somehow magically works when the machine is offline
without Java applications having to distribute their own full profile
JRE.
tl;dr no, it should be possible to opt out of the UI toolkit, but
keeping it as a de
I obviously haven't been keeping up then :)
On Nov 13, 6:36 pm, Rob Ross wrote:
> Not sure if this was sarcasm or not, but this story has been a hot topic here
> since 6am this morning!
>
> Rob
>
> On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:25 PM, Steven Herod wrote:
>
>
>
> >http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/11
Its unfortunate that the UI toolkit is a mandatory part of a basic JRE
profile. Everybody needs the image libraries once if not often but the UI
really should be an optional extra... is that a fair comment ?
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