2009/9/30 Charles Oliver Nutter
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> On Sep 24, 1:17 am, Robert Lally wrote:
> > After all the discussions about Coin, Java 7, closures, participation,
> and
> > the JCP I'm left with the following understanding.
> > 1. There's no shortage of ideas.
>
After all the discussions about Coin, Java 7, closures, participation, and
the JCP I'm left with the following understanding.
1. There's no shortage of ideas.
2. There is a shortage of analysis and implementations.
3. There are no companies that have a vested interest, or a potential ROI,
in implem
I'm strangely conflicted. I hate the song .. I really do. I hate the way it
gets into your head and rolls around there all day after you listen to it.
OTOH, I don't want it to go away. That would make me sad.
Rob Lally.
2009/3/23 clint.foster
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> I may be the only person who doesn't like the
In the UK and the US, where programming seems to be on the decline as more
and more jobs are outsourced to lower cost countries, there are few women in
the field. I've been lucky to work for, and with, some very smart women but
overall I'd guess that only about 10% of my colleagues across the years
I've found 8.0.1 and the current 8.1 Beta to both be completely reliable on
OS X.
Rob Lally.
2009/2/11 Todd Costella
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> Rock solid on Windows and OS/X for me as well. Much better than 7.0.4
> was that's for sure.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: javaposse@googlegroups.com [mailto:javapo
I've been trying to understand if the proposed modular JRE architecture will
bring any benefits to those who predominantly develop sever-side
applications. I can imagine that startup times might be slightly reduced,
potentially memory footprint might be reduced, but other than that I can't
see many
Mr Iry, I take your point. I shall endeavor to ignore Mr Morris and his
trolling, he really is just one aberrant soul in a genuinely friendly and
helpful community.
R.
2008/12/28 Tony Morris
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> No Rob, we disagreed many times. Disagreeing is fun and enlightening.
> The ban came when you stoppe
2008/12/28 James Iry
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> Believe me, I've tried and so have many others. We've tried
> educating, pleading, belittling, you name it. He literally either
> doesn't understand the issue or doesn't care. The challenge with Tony
> is that he's usually right about matters of fact, but usually oh so
As someone who strongly believes that the community associated with a
language is the most important factor when it comes to determining how,
where and when that language will gain traction I had to chip in on this
thread.
Tony has operator privileges on #scala, and he uses it to ban those who
dis
