April 17, 2005
Because you can never have too many version numbers
It's one thing to name a product Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 Update 2 also known as Java 1.5 code named Tiger. But it takes major balls to write up two long guides justifying this hopelessly broken versioning scheme. How priceless is this:
The number "5.0" was arrived at by dropping the leading "1." from "1.5.0". Where you might have expected to see 1.5.0, it is now 5.0
And stupid me actually expected 1.5, like, you know, the version that comes after 1.4! But now I get it! It's really 1.5 but 5.0ishly stable and mature and secure and scalable and stuff, but, like, totally 2nd generation!
I had intended to make fun of what Java might be called in 2015 but quickly found myself unable to outdo the present reality in any noteworthy way.
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