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Chapter 12. Java > Power or Simplicity
12.1. Power or Simplicity
You've said that simplicity and power are evil twin brothers. Can you elaborate?
James Gosling: Often systems that are really powerful tend to get complicated. Take something like the Java EE spec. It's got all this stuff about transactions and persistence and those are really, really powerful. But in the early days of Java, we didn't have any of that.
