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Quote of the month

From project.ioni.st: The power of static typing. 294 pages on how to use Arrays. …about the new “Java Generics and Collections” book

Common Lisp’s quote

Directly from Practical Common Lisp: DOLIST is similar to Perl’s foreach or Python’s for. Java added a similar kind of loop construct with the “enhanced” for loop in Java 1.5, as part of JSR-201. Notice what a difference macros make. A Lisp programmer who notices a common pattern in their code can write a macro [...]

Java go on!

I don’t know what to think about somebody who really likes Java because this really odd: [code lang="java"] int[] arr = (int []) arr.clone(); [/code] arr is declared as a int []. VERY UGLY. That’s an hack. Java 5 seems a bit smarter and it doesn’t require the cast. I used Java 5 while developing [...]

Java sucks for me

It can’t be that it’s going to take more time translating Python code to Java than the time to code the algorithm in Python first. I started converting the algorithm contained in a public method with two arrays of char as arguments but when I decided to switch to java.lang.String it occured me that I [...]