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Ted is talking about annoying nits in Java.

Being able to finally put a wildcard in our Java classpaths is a "thank god. finally" moment.

Then you read on and see that you need to quote the asterisk to prevent the shell from doing its thing:

java -classpath $LIB/'*' com.xyzzy.app.Main

Ugly, but still it works.

Then you find out that it isn't recursive, and there is no option to make that happen yet via '**' or something.

It just shows how behind we are. What do the users really need. Give it to them.

Every little change seems so painful. Especially when I can: require dynamically_work_out_file elsewhere.