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		Roboprog on March 8, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Attitudes That Lead to Maintainable Code Thank you. After 30+ years of programming, I am often completely disgusted at what a bunch of magic filth JEE/Spring is. The guy(s) who made annotations in Java 1.5 deserves extreme punishment :-)

AstralStorm on March 9, 2017 [–]

Nah, annotations are great when they're used for their stated purpose, that is, annotating code.

They shouldn't have been allowed to actually change runtime behavior or be used to control code generation.

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