[amouat]

I think the point is that most of the time when you think "I need something that does x", there is a library for that; whether it is a core library or not. In Lisp I guess you often find something very specific that doesn't quite solve the problem you have.

Having said that, I really liked the Google Guava library, although a good bit of that stuff is working around or solving problems with Java itself.

https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/

[trimbo]

Guava is fantastic. So many times in the last few years, I've pointed people to Guava in code reviews "hey, this thing you just wrote, Guava already has that."