Tag Archives: java

I Don’t Get It

By Robert Fischer | Published: February 5, 2010

Java’s open source culture confuses me.

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Java Posse, .Equals(), Inheritance, and the Liskov Substitution Principle

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 29, 2007

Continuing the conversation had by Raganwald, me, and a lot of the rest of the blogosphere.

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Commons-Lang and the equals()/compareTo() Debacle

By Robert Fischer | Published: January 30, 2006

Like most traumatic realizations, I’ve been having trouble getting the fundamental equals/compareTo brokeness of Java out of my head. I decided to take a look at the Commons-Lang library to see how they deal with it. They’ve got a class called EqualsBuilder which is supposed to take care of this stuff for you. So I [...]

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This is your brain; this is your brain on OCaml

By Robert Fischer | Published: December 16, 2005

OCaml messes with my Java code

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A Java Gotcha

By Robert Fischer | Published: October 28, 2005

Java has a universal “equals” method, as well as a “Comparable” interface that defines “natural comparison”. I always had a distaste for that design decision, and that distaste has just been further validated.

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