First, let's cover the technical issues. It's verbose, combines the worst of both worlds between static and dynamic typing by having a hobbled but extremely clunky type system, and mandates running on ...

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Manipulating calendar dates is an essential aspect of many applications written in Java. Traditionally, developers relied on the java.util.Calendar class to get the ...

I remember well the media feeding frenzy launched by Sun Microsystems at the Embedded Systems Conference in 1998 or 1999. Java mugs were everywhere for the taking, and huge Java banners flew over the ...