Wednesday Jun 01, 2011  EclipseCon 2007  Alex and I are on stage
at EclipseCon 2007 waiting to give our presentation,
unfortunately this means that we are missing Scott Adams who we
can hear from the conference room next to ours.  So if you're
interested in hearing our talk on Java SE 7 language features,
now would be a good time to head down to Santa Clara Convention
Center. We start at 10:10am.  The Language of God?  Thanks to
Randall Munroe for generously sharing his comics with the rest
of the world.  A Case for Generics  Forget about my wish list
from last month. There are a few really good ideas on that list
(closures and super packages). I gave up on properties. The rest
is about making generic types easier to use. However, during my
recent hiatus in Europe, I have been reflecting on generics.
What is the problem with generics? Is it too complicated?  No
doubt, generic types are relatively new in mainstream
programming languages and wildcards are truly unique: it was
literally invented for the Java™ pr