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The Weird and The Wonderful forum is a place to post Coding Horrors, Worst Practices, and the occasional flash of brilliance.

We all come across code that simply boggles the mind. Lazy kludges, embarrassing mistakes, horrid workarounds and developers just not quite getting it. And then somedays we come across - or write - the truly sublime.

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GeneralRe: Read-only properties Pin
Derek Bartram22-Mar-08 0:51
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GibbleCH22-Mar-08 5:03
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Derek Bartram22-Mar-08 6:36
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GeneralNo useful language is idiot-proof... Pin
Jeff Dickey7-Apr-08 17:56
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Derek Bartram12-Apr-08 14:13
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GeneralYes and no Pin
Jeff Dickey14-Apr-08 0:34
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Derek Bartram16-Apr-08 2:32
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Jeff Dickey16-Apr-08 4:37
Jeff Dickey16-Apr-08 4:37 
I'd say small, embedded systems like set-top boxes or microwave ovens or TiVos or suchlike....close enough to the original problem domain addressed by what eventually became J2SE 1.0, without all the EE or additional-API BS-cleaverly-disguised-as-APIs. When Java was hijacked from scratching-an-itch to become the cornerstone of the One "True" Programming Religion, with hundreds of thousands of low-cost, mass-produced "proessionals", the nice, more-or-less-forward progress of software discovery and evolution took a nasty, twisted turn. For many shops controlled by Javacolytes, that 'twisted turn' has straightened out nicely. They're under a constant acceleration of ten meters per second per second...

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