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Once every year I try to recreate blocks in Java using anonymous inner classes, and then quickly remember, how discouraging Java can be: Read more ...

assertNoException(new Block() {
   public void call() throws Exception {
     sqlInterface.getActiveAppointments(USER_ID, SUPER_START, SUPER_END, COLS); 
   } 
}); 

The List Universe published "10 Developments That Changed The Face Of Computing". They are (in reverse order of importance): the Web, Photoshop, VisiCalc, WordStar, CP/M, EMACS, Unix, C, Smalltalk, Xerox Alto Operating System.

So the Xerox Alto OS changed the face of computing the most, followed by Smalltalk. Both from the early seventies. Read more ...

Es gibt sie noch, die guten Dinge (OK, zumindest *das* ist geklaut). Smalltalk Bücher als free (?) eBooks. Nett.