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Topic: java 1.5 (Read 555 times) |
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fry
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java 1.5
« on: Feb 5th, 2004, 6:23pm » |
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a rundown of some of the features in java 1.5:
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/j2se15/
we're probably a long ways from 1.5 being finalized, much less widely available on macosx, but there are some interesting things in there.
foreach and auto-boxing/unboxing of types is really nice, and something that would be fun to have in p5 if it can be done without java 1.5--lots of these features are just compiler changes.
the startup time is supposed to be far better too, which would be a huge help.
sadly there's also lots of scary stuff in there, where it seems like they've lost their way from their original goal of having a simple to use, easy to read language that got rid of some of the awfulness of c++ (#define, varargs, weird namespaces, etc).
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