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I thing Java took a wrong turn with 1.5 and especially 1.6. Introduced new complexities to the language, without adressing its main drawbacks: verbosity, and lack of proper closures, and functions being first class citizens

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Java 7 should add closures. And in the mean time, most of the times you would be using closures, you can use anonymous inner classes.

Yeah, closures and anonymous inner classes would really redeem Java in the eyes of the masses.

Java is going, going, ...

i think what tomjen was referencing was that java already has anonymous inner classes.

I'm aware. I was trying to take a funny jab at Java and it didn't turn out so well.

anon. inner classes are simply too heavy to warrant most uses. You want brevity.

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