There's a new way to create unnecessary objects in release 1.5.
It is called autoboxing, and it allows the programmer to mix primitive and boxed primitive
types, boxing and unboxing automatically as needed.
- How many times have you looked at the Javadoc for a class and wondered whether it was thread-safe?
- If you've never wondered this, we admire your optimism.
Programming with mutability in pure Java is like working with the mother-in-law who's just waiting for you to fail.
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it might be a turkey wrapped in a duck adapter...
An operating system is similar to a government.
Like a government, it performs no useful function by itself.