Gábor's blog http://www.nekomancer.net/node/142/atom/feed 2008-03-28T18:46:28-05:00 java kiss http://www.nekomancer.net/blog/archives/java-kiss 2006-11-21T15:42:49-06:00 2008-03-28T18:46:28-05:00 gabor there’s a certain intrinsic beauty in simple solutions. it’s also known as the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle.

let me present you java, the programming language:

  • the subversion repository is at: https://openjdk.dev.java.net/svn/openjdk/trunk , username guest, no password.
  • the license is GPLv2.

enjoy.

ps1: to be fair, there are still some (hopefully temporary) blurry parts. but the rest is simple. i do not develop in java anymore (switched to python), but i can only admire the elegance of how SUN managed to open-source java. no tricky licenses, no obscure ways to get the code. i’m sure for the visual-C++ developing slaves of the microsoft world this seems alien and discomforting. but for the rest of us, it’s a piece of elegance.

]]> there’s a certain intrinsic beauty in simple solutions. it’s also known as the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle.

let me present you java, the programming language:

  • the subversion repository is at: https://openjdk.dev.java.net/svn/openjdk/trunk , username guest, no password.
  • the license is GPLv2.

enjoy.

ps1: to be fair, there are still some (hopefully temporary) blurry parts. but the rest is simple. i do not develop in java anymore (switched to python), but i can only admire the elegance of how SUN managed to open-source java. no tricky licenses, no obscure ways to get the code. i’m sure for the visual-C++ developing slaves of the microsoft world this seems alien and discomforting. but for the rest of us, it’s a piece of elegance.

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