Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gene Wirchenko Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: CLI Java Glitch Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:26:56 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: <050007l00uo10dcurs2kbs6m68fh81a1am@4ax.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="7Qrvczazr82YckO5XW8Vtw"; logging-data="18532"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX198LjX8NDehdXx2iX1DuaeNm+flZPXlDnY=" X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Dy0jyTGEJxVY926drVPnBmXDBQ= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5453 On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:44:04 -0400, Eric Sosman wrote: >On 6/20/2011 7:55 PM, Roedy Green wrote: >> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 14:24:53 -0700, Gene Wirchenko >> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >> >>> C:\cbs2dev\test>java helloworld >>> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: helloworld >>> (wrong nam >> >> see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/helloworld.html >> >> Java is case sensitive. Case matters. > > Any bets on when we'll see a font-sensitive programming language? > > (Actually, I've already seen one, in a very weak sense. It was a >C compiler that completely ignored reverse-video characters in its >input -- and that emitted reverse-video error messages directly into >the source it was compiling. Convenient for one particular use case, >but not what you'd call "scalable" ...) I can see why. I took a couple of courses of COBOL. When viewing compilation listings, it was very tempting to start correcting. I ended up writing a program that converted a compilation listing back to source. A few people did doubletakes when they saw me editing the compilation listing. And I did help one fellow student recover his source when he had accidentally deleted that instead of the listing. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko