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My Newest Insight into the Generics Controversy

Okay, I’ve had some quality time with Java5 at my newest gig, and I’m starting to understand the great controversy behind Java generics. There was a particularly painful insight I just had that has officially flipped me from stalwart supporter to reluctant supporter, and I’d like to share that with the world so they don’t [...]

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Implementation Exposure Through Inheritance

There’s a bit of ugliness with object-oriented development which I keep encountering, so I’m wondering if any of the locals out there have a better solution. Specifically, my problem is that the inheritance relationship seems to be conflating two purposes in at least Java and CSharp.

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C++ and Threading

I’m reading this post on the C++ committee’s dealings on threading, and, I am pleased to announce, there is absolutely no chance what so ever of anything sane, workable, or sensible accidentally arising from these precedings.

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