David Bolton Strikes Again

I’m far from the first to make the point, but on reviewing Bruce Tate’s still excellent Bitter Java, I came across this reason for the success of Java:

In C++, cascading include files were very difficult to maintain, understand, and debug.

Surely I’m not the only one out there feeling we’re heading in the same direction (or already there!) with XML configuration files — I’ll stop myself from mentioning specific frameworks.