Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: thinbluernime Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Java blunders Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 03:55:00 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: i+hccjf+IDuaX49PUP4Bpw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.10 (MacIntel) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29294 On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 02:01:05 -0500, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote: > * No Elvis-operator or similar (it would make logging logic a lot more > pleasant to write.) "Elvis-operator"? (And please don't anybody suggest that googling "Elvis" could *possibly* be useful here.) > * java.io.File > * java.util.Date What are your specific complaints with those? Or do you think these classes should have been in java.lang? > * HTML as the markup language for JavaDoc HTML is the standard way to represent hypertext these days. Are you suggesting JavaDoc shouldn't have been hypertext, or that it should have been something weird and unusual that few other tools would interoperate with and that would require a whole new ground-up browser be written for it instead of using the ones everyone already has installed?