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HN commenters recommend it as an entertaining tour of exotic Java corner cases.
Josh Bloch and Jeremy Manson present the eighth installment of Java Puzzlers at Google I/O 2011, a set of surprising corner cases in the Java language and libraries. It includes puzzlers on traps such as regular expression performance.
“Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Jeremy Manson are pretty entertaining.” (HN, 2018)
Java Puzzlers spring to mind. There's a book [0], and some fun talks available on youtube [1][2][3]. [0]: [link] [1]: [this video] [2]: [link] [3]: [link]
Java Puzzlers by Joshua Bloch and Jeremy Manson are pretty entertaining. For a pretty bog standard language, Java has some more exotic corners: [this video]
Understanding good idioms in Java, instead of learning from scattered pieces of folk knowledge: * [link] * [link] (a talk by the author) Corner cases in the Java programming language: * [link] * [this video] (a talk by the author)
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