Steve Roy <email@hidden> wrote:
>I look at code like this and I think, who thought of such an
>abomination? Is it just me who thinks Java is going the wrong way...?
It's a side-effect of the Accretion development model. If you can't break
existing code, things build up that you wouldn't necessarily design that
way in the first place.
>Anyway, that's off-topic.
However, it's very useful to realize that a lot of Java is the way it is
because of its evolutionary history.
-- GG
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