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Evolving The Java Language
This document discusses the challenges of evolving mature programming languages like Java. It outlines design principles focused on encouraging best practices, isolating the language from specific APIs, and prioritizing readability and backward compatibility. Short-term goals for Java include regularizing existing features, improving type inference and diagnostics, adding string switches and limited operator overloading. Long-term goals include further work on generics, concurrency support, and features like immutability and closures.
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