Re: Java old hat?

The government of Canada employees were told only Java and dot NET will be hosted by the Shared Services clouds. I recommend staying away from open source fads or things developed by grad students, or developed in-house using random technologies with no long-term support. Some open source technologies are okay if they are used everywhere and have solid support behind them but if a tech may not be popular in 5 years, I would avoid it.

Small to medium sized organizations may have different parameters though. On Jul 1, 2016 14:36, "bill thater" <shrekdba_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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_at_rsiz.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> If you know what the heck I’m talking about, you are either a dinosaur or
> have been studying history.
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> Now for some value (I hope): Any language can be abused. Any language can
> be hyped.
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> mwf
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> *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?
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> Morning John,
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> 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!
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> 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)
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> The good thing is that it's pretty much cross platform, although I
> discovered a couple of windows foibles when unicodecomes into play.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
> Norm.
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> Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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