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Neal Gafter Java Evolution
This document discusses the challenges of evolving mature programming languages like Java. It outlines design principles like encouraging desirable practices, isolating the language from specific APIs, and preferring readability over conciseness. Short-term goals include regularizing the existing language through improvements to generics, type inference, string switches, and catch clauses. Long-term goals include further language features like reification, control abstraction, and concurrency support.
