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On 01/15/2015 06:34 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> The ebb and flow of technology has recently brought me someplace I never 
> thought I'd be.  Java-land.  And what I've discovered is that factories 
> are so last year.  Apparently builders are the new thing.

It's never clear to me whether all these fancy design patterns are to
make up for a deficient language, or whether some people just get their
kicks from layer upon layer of abstraction.  Certainly it's this sort of
thing that turns me right off of Java.