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Quote by Joshua Bloch

“It is hard to write even the smallest piece of code correctly.”

Quote by Joshua Bloch

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Joshua Bloch is a renowned software engineer known for his contributions to the Java programming language and library design. Born on August 28, 1961, he served as the Chief Architect of the Java Platform at Sun Microsystems and later as the architect for the Java libraries at Google. Throughout his career, Bloch has had a significant impact on the development of the Java programming language. more

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