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Post #190,070
by tuberculosis
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1/13/05 12:13:16 PM
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New I dispute that claim
Java started as a hack - a toy language to run in VCRs and such.

Since it was meant to be a throwaway, not a lot of thought went into it I think.


"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."     --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."     --George W. Bush
Post #191,663
by mmoffitt
1/26/05 8:51:54 AM
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New Exactly.
I usually summarize my view of Java something like this: "Java was some one's neat little school project that other people took entirely too seriously and foisted upon more people who didn't deserve to be so encumbered."
bcnu,
Mikem

Eine Leute. Eine Welt. Ein F\ufffdhrer.
(Just trying to be accepted in the New America)
     Tilting at windmills: classes vs objects - (drewk) - (35) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:26:04 PM EST
         Er, no. - (admin) - (14) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:35:32 PM EST
             Well ... - (drewk) - (11) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:41:28 PM EST
                 They're wrong. - (admin) - (9) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:49:05 PM EST
                     I'd say parallel development - (drewk) - (5) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:50:21 PM EST
                         I dispute that claim - (tuberculosis) - (1) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:13:16 PM EST
                             Exactly. - (mmoffitt) - Jan. 26, 2005, 08:51:54 AM EST
                         History of PHP in question - (tablizer) - (2) - Jan. 15, 2005, 03:57:57 AM EST
                             PHP started as less then a scripting language - (JayMehaffey) - (1) - Jan. 15, 2005, 08:16:52 PM EST
                                 Them 'er fightin' words - (tablizer) - Jan. 16, 2005, 02:10:29 AM EST
                     I think PHP's upgrades are just practical. - (static) - (2) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:15:54 AM EST
                         By "class variables" you mean "static" class variables? -NT - (drewk) - (1) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:18:47 AM EST
                             Er, yes. - (static) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:39:01 AM EST
                 What to say if someone says that... - (ben_tilly) - Jan. 13, 2005, 10:43:01 AM EST
             Nit - (dshellman) - (1) - Jan. 13, 2005, 10:53:33 AM EST
                 Actually, that's not a nit - (admin) - Jan. 13, 2005, 10:58:38 AM EST
         a class is a type of object - (daemon) - (2) - Jan. 12, 2005, 10:44:44 PM EST
             It's tables all the way down. :-) - (ChrisR) - (1) - Jan. 12, 2005, 11:51:51 PM EST
                 ICLRPD (new thread) - (Steve Lowe) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:07:45 AM EST
         Very astute observation - (tuberculosis) - Jan. 13, 2005, 12:10:32 PM EST
         Re: Tilting at windmills: classes vs objects - (systems) - (15) - Jan. 24, 2005, 06:50:48 PM EST
             I suspected that programming would eventually converge - (Ashton) - Jan. 25, 2005, 03:04:32 AM EST
             Do you honestly believe that this is from TCL??? - (ben_tilly) - (13) - Jan. 25, 2005, 09:21:46 AM EST
                 Amen - (broomberg) - Jan. 25, 2005, 08:20:59 PM EST
                 Re: Do you honestly believe that this is from TCL??? - (systems) - (11) - Feb. 2, 2005, 02:55:04 AM EST
                     think you had better be a developer - (daemon) - (3) - Feb. 2, 2005, 09:07:03 AM EST
                         Funny; I was thinking the opposite ;) -NT - (FuManChu) - (2) - Feb. 2, 2005, 12:31:27 PM EST
                             Ive met lots of developers that have no clue - (daemon) - Feb. 2, 2005, 01:25:40 PM EST
                             Neither - (broomberg) - Feb. 2, 2005, 08:29:41 PM EST
                     Let me get this straight - (ben_tilly) - (5) - Feb. 2, 2005, 08:48:42 PM EST
                         very loud VD (clap clap clap) -NT - (daemon) - Feb. 2, 2005, 10:11:52 PM EST
                         Then let me elaborate - (systems) - (3) - Feb. 3, 2005, 04:55:39 AM EST
                             "Systems", you should meet Bryce. Bryce, this is "Systems". -NT - (CRConrad) - Feb. 3, 2005, 05:42:13 AM EST
                             BTW, "Systems": Lay off the exclamation marks. Have some ... - (CRConrad) - Feb. 3, 2005, 05:45:25 AM EST
                             You sound like the Rincewind of programming -NT - (ben_tilly) - Feb. 3, 2005, 11:20:52 AM EST
                     For scripting, TCL is poo. -NT - (pwhysall) - Feb. 3, 2005, 10:13:05 AM EST

All that did was remind me of the fruit in the "Sledgehammer" video by Peter Gabriel.
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