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I like it, but making fun of Java (and Java's "thought leaders") is just too easy. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. With a grenade launcher.

Eclipse is another matter: far more ridicule is called for. Far, far more.

Exactly: Or Smalltalk or Ruby for that matter, which both facilitate information hiding via private access. It's great to feel superior, isn't it?

Yeah except in Ruby (I don't know about smalltalk) private access has the loophole of the send method. FreeHouse.send(:open_employees_only_door)

Matz would never deny us of our right to snoop around where we don't belong.