19 March 2003

19Mar2003

The Prevayling Attitude

By carlfish on

I've been meaning to write an article about why I'm discouraged from using Prevayler by the over-blown and annoying hype of its supporters, but Alan has beaten me to it.

19Mar2003

JSR-666: extended operator set

By carlfish on

The JSR-666 expert group has noted that since Java source is essentially Unicode, there are thousands of potential operators going begging, simply because they don't appear on regular keyboards. This minor inconvenience should not deter us from improving the language, so we are proposing the following additions: