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Effective Java: Third Edition by Joshua Bloch is banned by the Ohio Prison System (www.themarshallproject.org)
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[โ€“] kmo@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wanted to recommend this book to some of my colleagues; however, I now have some doubts. ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

So long as you're not in Ohio I think you should be fine!

[โ€“] pohart@lemmyrs.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This country is insane. How does this protect anyone?

[โ€“] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Java is a write once, run anywhere platform. If we allow prisoners to write code on the computers they have access to they may try to run it on some 3 billion devices! We can't have that!