LXer: The Java Mess
 

Published at LXer:

Sun’s first mistake with Java was locking up the codebase, letting few see it, and letting even fewer improve it, so that today, there exists only a small community of people, outside of Sun/Oracle, who understand and are improving the core.

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Throughout the article, I kept getting distracted by how badly written it was. What eventually made me stop reading was this:

Oh really?