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Archive for November 27th, 2005

The Complexity of Java

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

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 [...]