One of my favorite pieces on the subject is from the round of interviews James Gosling made in the 90s as they were promoting Java.
He said that when he moves to a new house he packages everything in boxes with a clear list of the box contents.
Then he doesn't unpack. He opens a box only based on necessity.
6 months later he throws out everything else without looking. If he'll look he won't throw it away.
He credited this approach for Java's very lean set of language features. For me that's the killer feature of Java.
I really wanna try this but I'm scared lol.
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One of my favorite pieces on the subject is from the round of interviews James Gosling made in the 90s as they were promoting Java.
He said that when he moves to a new house he packages everything in boxes with a clear list of the box contents.
Then he doesn't unpack. He opens a box only based on necessity.
6 months later he throws out everything else without looking. If he'll look he won't throw it away.
He credited this approach for Java's very lean set of language features. For me that's the killer feature of Java.
I really wanna try this but I'm scared lol.