OT: What's wrong with Java-the-language

[Julio César Carrascal Urquijo]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Technically, the auto-boxing issue is related to the implementation 
> rather than the language design (unless that behavior is actually in the 
> spec).  Generics, however, are utter garbage.  They are useful as a 
> convenience tool for not manually casting and that's about it.  Opinions 
> about MS aside, I think C# is a better designed language than Java.
> 
> 
> Sean

Yes, it is in the "The Java Language Specification, Third Edition" at least:

If the value p being boxed is true, false, a byte, a char in the range 
\u0000 to \u007f, or an int or short number between -128 and 127, then 
let r1 and r2 be the results of any two boxing conversions of p. It is 
always the case that r1 == r2.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/jls/third_edition/html/conversions.html#5.1.7


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