Java has always allows us to say "this class cannot be extended" by marking the class final. The existence of final in the language acknowledges a basic fact about classes: sometimes they are designed ...

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Google today announced that it is making Kotlin, a statically typed programming language for the Java Virtual Machine, a first-class language for writing Android apps. Kotlin’s primary sponsor is ...