A Personal Pantagraph

Overall rating: 4/5
Infinity Beach is a classic Jack McDevitt story, with many elements his readers will recognize: mysterious events that happened years ago, false reputations, the search for truth, stark moral choices, general societal decay, and a personal struggle with mediocrity. It is also full of McDevitt’s twists, unusual perspectives on the world, unexpected [...]

Java has a well-deserved reputation for complexity, but it did not start out this way. In the beginning, Java flourished in part because it was so much simpler to write programs in Java than in the alternatives, e.g., C++. Garbage collection, collection classes, simple database API, sane networking API, and a simplified threading [...]