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22nd January 2007 - Link Blog

In Which I Think About Java Again, But Only For A Moment. Convincing argument as to why desktop applications written in Java rarely have decent user interfaces.

Posted 22nd January 2007 at 9:39 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd January 2007.

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