Dinosaur, after all I am older than dirt😉
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Mark W. Farnham < mwf@xxxxxxxx
[mwf@xxxxxxxx] > 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
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Behalf Of Norman Dunbar
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2016 3:21 AM
To: jt2354@xxxxxxxxx; 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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