[android-developers] Re: Is this template in java

On Friday, December 2, 2011 2:52:31 PM UTC-8, SL wrote:

... 

> Not only that, but almost nothing from 1996 Java applies today.  You  
> don't
> use 'Vector' or 'Hashmap' any more, you have Swing (well, not for  
> Android),
> a new threading model, generics, 'assert', for:each, enums, ...
>
> OMG!  The list is HUGE what's missing from a 15-year-old reference.  So
> much that it is essentially useless for a budding Android programmer.

[snip]

Mine, I am reading a 15-year old book (from a friend) to catch up on Java.

I think you have over-emphasized somewhat, it can't be that nothing  
applies.

I am not over-emphasizing.  I didn't say that nothing applies, I said that a 1996 book is essentially useless.  Does it even mention nested classes, which IIRC didn't exist in Java in 1996?

You underestimate the changes.  Java 1.1 was pretty much a different language from 1.0, adding inner classes and reflection.  1.2 introduced significant library changes.  1.4 brought in a new keyword, NIO, and other changes.  Java 5 once again pretty much reinvented the language, and changed the fundamental memory model.

You would do well not to be so dismissive of accurate information.

On second thought, may be I should sue my friend for (may be intentionlly  

) misleading me.

You would do well not to be so dismissive of accurate information.

-- 

Lew

 

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