Re: Java old hat?

Dinosaur, after all I am older than dirt😉

Bill " Shrek " thater Shrekdba_at_gmail.com One ping to rule them all One ping to find them One ping to bring them all And in the muted bind them via CloudMagic Email [https://cloudmagic.com/k/d/mailapp?ct=ta&cv=8.5.49&pv=5.1&source=email_footer_2] On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Mark W. Farnham < mwf_at_rsiz.com [mwf_at_rsiz.com] > wrote: I still have two old Java Hats that Scott gave me when Burlington Coat won Unix User of the Year Award from Uniforum. I think he gave me two because they ran out of the leather armed jackets one before I got to him. I can’t remember whether Hank Azaria was any funnier than Scott standing over his effigy corpse and agreeing to support Motif.

If you know what the heck I’m talking about, you are either a dinosaur or have been studying history.

Now for some value (I hope): Any language can be abused. Any language can be hyped.

mwf

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Norman Dunbar Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 3:21 AM
To: jt2354_at_gmail.com; ORACLE-L
Subject: Re: Java old hat?

Morning John,

I loathe and detest Java with a vengeance normally reserved for Perl! But I always have done. Do have a rational reason for doing so? Probably not now,but in the beginning, it was the continual hype about the language that simply tee'd me off completely. A bit like whenever U2 release a new album!

Having said that, I do occasionally use it when I have no other choice. When I develop apps in ANTLR 4 for example, my Tnsnames.ora. validator. ( https://github.com/NormanDunbar [https://github.com/NormanDunbar] )

The good thing is that it's pretty much cross platform, although I discovered a couple of windows foibles when unicodecomes into play.

It's not my first choice for cross platform development, I'd much rather use C or C++ with QT or WxWidgets, or even COBOL, but sometimes I have no choice.

Personally, I think too many new languages are coming out as the next great thing these days. Just take a look at all the books on Packt for example.

Cheers,
Norm.
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