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If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It’s just secret to this pop culture.

— Alan Kay

3 December 2009 • wisdom java programming

In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are backed by shit. The implementations of libraries that look like they could be beautiful are shit.

— Brad Fitzpatrick (taken from “Coders at work”)

10 November 2009 • wisdom programming