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  1. RT @stilkov: The best comment on closures in Java yet: http://bit.ly/7AyWPB
  2. @jodastephen Just when you thought you were off the hook on jsr310, jdk7 gets delayed. Focus if you can, we need it.
  3. "Closures for Java" is a snapper title than "Lambda Expressions, Function Types, Method References, and Exception Type Parameters for the ..
  4. RT @cquinn Simple closures in java 7? Mark says so at #devoxx. Function literals & types, extension methods.
  5. "Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems may be rejected by the European Commission" http://tinyurl.com/yk5wrdz
  6. openjdk7 schedules a "release candidate" in February. But a candidate for a release of *what*? Certainly not SE 7 without a JSR.
  7. Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 (includes F#, C# support for dynamic, named and optional parameters, variance) http://tinyurl.com/o949y9
  8. RT @patentlyfalse: Emboldened By Nobel Prize, US President Obama Re-Opens Discussion On Bringing Closures To Java
  9. EU puts the Oracle-Sun deal on hold: http://tinyurl.com/lcqobt http://tinyurl.com/mngzcw
  10. jdk7 schedule says that in ~90 more days the "Coin" Java Language changes will be integrated, though the JSR hasn't yet been proposed.
  11. jsr294 (Java modularity) was scheduled for milestone 4, but now it's disappeared from the openjdk7 schedule.
  12. FoldIt: Solve Puzzles for Science. http://fold.it/portal/ But learn from my mistakes: don't do it until 4am.
  13. I wonder if Oracle will want to extend Java for better DB integration? http://tinyurl.com/6fbf6r
  14. "Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them." ;-) http://tinyurl.com/pjcco4
  15. 8 Java Puzzlers for JavaOne done. Wow. Soon we'll scrape right through the bottom of the barrel.
  16. Lang.Net Symposium this week: http://langnetsymposium.com...
  17. How many Java programmers does it take to change a light bulb? http://tinyurl.com/ctq5qs
  18. I fear the corporate maneuvering of a possible IBM acquisition of Sun will delay the start of Java 7.
  19. If your language has control abstraction (ala BGGA), you can implement (poor-mans) aspect-oriented-programming in an API.
  20. @kberg It isn't trivial to design the changes needed to make a "this" type work, so it doesn't belong in project coin.