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Published: Oct 29 2008 / 10:40

Joshua Bloch, Google's chief Java architect, is a former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the award-winning Java Collections Framework. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University. Bloch won the prestigious Jolt Award from Software Development Magazine for the first edition of his 2001 book, Effective Java Programming Language Guide, known to many developers as Effective Java, and he is also the coauthor (with Neal Gafter) of the highly regarded book Java Puzzlers.
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zynasis replied ago:

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i disagree with: Use the standard library unless it's profoundly unsuited to your needs

i will not use a library if it does not meet atleast 90% of my needs. there is nothing messier than hack code just to satisfy a 3rd party library imo.

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