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when you think about one missing thing in the java programming language... what comes to mind?
 
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I really don't know how to answer this except to say that I pray Sun has the moxie to do a radical Java 2.0, cut out all the dead weight, and make the necessary changes to streamline what we have already, particularly in Graphics. If they do, it will breath new life into Java. If they don't it will open it up to competition.
 
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I wanted to add to this that Sun's admirable commitment to backwards compatability at some point becomes a rope they are putting around their own kneck. I think that point is the Java 2.0 release. If backwords compatibility prevents them from correcting obvious and well documented mistakes in the 2.0 release, they will miss the ONE AND ONLY opportunity they have to "get it right" in the core API. For example, Date could be made immutable. There are hundreds of such changes that could be made.
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