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zorked on June 18, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Tragedy of the Common Lisp, Or, Why Large Lang...

Java, or, how "software engineering" can kill a decent enough language with incredible complexity.

jimktrains2 on June 18, 2015 | [–]

I blame a lot of that on the type system. It's almost very nice, but in such a way that make compensating for the almost very painful.

collyw on June 18, 2015 | [–]

"software over-engineering"

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