Re: Some Laws

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 19:09:28 GMT
Message-ID: <I5k4d.91137$D%.72678@attbi_s51>

"robert" <gnuoytr_at_rcn.com> wrote in message news:da3c2186.0409211922.21e7ea7f_at_posting.google.com...

> the java twinks are a herd of lemmings. who happen to be convinced
> that any thought they have must be profound and original.

That's just rude and uncalled for, and dead wrong to boot. Java has been and continues to be an extraordinary success, both in terms of popularity and in terms of getting work done. This popularity engenders an enormous amount of hostility and resentment for reasons I don't entirely understand. What's the opposite of shadenfreude?

At the same time, I've never heard anyone in the Java camp claim any particular profundity or orginality. It's just a damn useful language is all. If you don't like it, that's fine, but to make up fake attributions for the Java camp and then lambaste them for it is the worst kind of rhetoric.

Or perhaps you can provide a citation for James Gosling or Ken Arnold or Bill Joy or Guy Steele or someone like that in which they claim to be the best thing ever?

Marshall Received on Wed Sep 22 2004 - 14:09:28 CDT