I've read the book "Beautiful Code" by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson that
was referenced on the blog. Personally, I didn't find any of the
examples listed particularly beautiful, but they were interesting if
you like that sort of thing. Beauty in code, as in everything is in
the eye of the beholder.
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:33 -0800, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> Thanks for the comments Harvey.
>
> You wrote: "Not really, you can opt-out and not use the new features
> if you don't
> want to.or just move on, there's no shortage these days of new
> languages Ruby, C#etc."
>
> I'm slowly
Thanks for the comments Harvey.
You wrote: "Not really, you can opt-out and not use the new features
if you don't
want to.or just move on, there's no shortage these days of new
languages Ruby, C#etc."
I'm slowly picking up Generics. I like the concept behind them but
must admit I'm not us
On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:11 -0800, Sunburned Surveyor wrote:
> Here is an interesting blog post about Java 7:
>
> http://beautifulcode.oreillynet.com/2007/09/will_java_7_be_beautiful.php
>
> It mentions a proposal to add something called "closures" to Java. I'm
> still trying to figure out how to
