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Java Design Philosophy
I was reading through design philosophy of java and this line struck me: "The VM checks whether the signature of the Java code is valid and would refuse to interpret if any change of the code is ...
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Why were default and static methods added to interfaces in Java 8 when we already had abstract classes?
In Java 8, interfaces can contain implemented methods, static methods, and the so-called "default" methods (which the implementing classes do not need to override). In my (probably naive) view, there ...
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