steel-wool panty liners = Java?

[david at thekramers.net (David Kramer)]

David J. C. Beach wrote, On 08/04/2004 09:20 AM:

> There is a sort of mentality from some Java programmers that the
> language is near perfect, overshadowing everything else from the last 50
> years of computer programming history.  IMO, the developers who exhibit
> this degree of fanaticism about Java are typically the ones who have the
> least experience with software development in other languages.

This is reflected by two of my biggest software development rants of mine over 
the past near-decade:

- Schools today, even technical ones, teach programming languages, but not the 
arts of software design or development.

- Anyone who sees all problems as nails that will work with their "One True 
Hammer", as opposed to using the right tool for the right job, is either 
irrationally biased, or insufficiently experienced in the other tools that are 
out there.  Note- Insufficient experience is a lot easier to fix than 
irrational bias.


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