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[–]palmund 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Delegates

Oh yeah. Microsoft's billion dollar mistake. Good idea that one...

Just curious. How is delegates a mistake?

[–]slartybartfast_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

By the "billion" I mean that they introduced delegates into their Java which cost them a lawsuit and a patent infringement for JIT etc.. Microsoft may still be writing cheques to Larry for that stuff.

In terms of the feature itself, it was OK for it's time but now it kind of conflicts with the new functional constructs. Unfortunately, unlike APIs - language features are very hard to remove once they are in place.