Tim Driven Development | Test until the fear goes away
Stephan van Hulst wrote: I hope you enjoy your retirement, and good luck with your project.
No more Blub for me, thank you, Vicar.
Pat Farrell wrote:BTW, I don't want folks to get the wrong idea, I did not retire after 20 years of writing Java alone. I retired after more than 40 years as a developer and manager. Only the last 20 dealt with Java. Before that was a long list of languages including Smalltalk, C, C++, Fortran, Cobol and many that I've forgotten.
Stephan van Hulst wrote:I'm wondering if in 30 years people will look at Java like they look at Fortran.
Pat Farrell wrote: ...hobby in my retirement.
If I were king, I'd freeze Java, and invent Lava or Mava, the next generation.
something new
Regards Pete
Pat Farrell wrote:If I were king, I'd freeze Java, and invent Lava or Mava, the next generation. Clean slate design, keeping the best parts with no backward compatibility at all. (I'd probably kill int and byte, etc. and make people use Integer and Byte like a real OO language).
I have to admit that I often smile at some of the postings here on the Ranch. Its a friendly place for rookies, but a lot of rookies seem to think that Java is the one true answer.
"Leadership is nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow" - Dogbert
Articles by Winston can be found here
Joe Ess wrote:
Pat Farrell wrote: ...hobby in my retirement.
You aren't supposed to learn something new. You're supposed to complain loudly about how things were better way back when (see the nostalga thread for suggestions).
Winston Gutkowski wrote:
Object → Relational mapping.
and it's great asset is its flexibility.
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