Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!news.alt.net From: dale Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.java.help,sci.image.processing,sci.engr.color,rec.photo.digital,rec.photo.darkroom Subject: Re: java still worthwhile? Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 09:32:09 -0500 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38737 comp.lang.java.help:4244 sci.image.processing:4430 sci.engr.color:1172 rec.photo.digital:224934 rec.photo.darkroom:1870 On 2/27/2019 7:28 AM, Eric Sosman wrote: > On 2/26/2019 5:25 PM, dale wrote: >> Is java still worth my effort? Just a pastime and something resulting >> to note in my resume. I know the fundamentals of object oriented >> architecture, design and programming. Don't quite like using Netbeans >> IDE, or any other IDE, but could get used to it ... > >     In the United States we have a saying: "You're preaching to > the choir," meaning that someone is laboring to convince those > who are already believers. > >     It seems to me you're engaged in a sort of reversal of that > practice: You're asking the choir whether music has value.  If you > want opinions about music and conduct your poll at a conservatory, > be just a bit suspicious about the outcome.  If you're studying the > plague of firearms at an NRA convention, take the results with a > grain of salt.  And if you're interested in the merits of Java, > asking Java-heads is maybe not the best way to get unbiased answers! > >     Just sayin' ... > Just listening ... -- dale - https://www.dalekelly.org/