Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman 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 07:28:29 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019 12:28:33 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="1ad26d3ff993d582e740dc9fe05d01bd"; logging-data="24184"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19tHil2u70BACqFnlkqX4YY" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:pW9itbaeIkk4+LpbtQLtGNpzr6g= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38735 comp.lang.java.help:4243 sci.image.processing:4429 sci.engr.color:1171 rec.photo.digital:224932 rec.photo.darkroom:1869 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' ... -- esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid Six hundred ninety-three days to go.