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Computer
programming (verb): to build features into a
language
to compensate for a
built
-in limitation
From Greenspun's tenth rule: (see wikipedia: Greenspun's_Tenth_Rule)
"
Ugh
, someone
needs
to just greenspun lambdas into java somehow to get around all of this
boilerplate
."
greenspun
by
rictic
October 20, 2006