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Re: EXIF tag handling in Java

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Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> Lew wrote:
> [snip]
>> On a tangential note, all this is exemplary of why 
>> Java programmers tend not to be acolytes of the language.
> 
> Lew, would you please unpack that?

I am a big fan of the Java programming language. I am also a big fan of skeptical appreciation.

I've used a variety of programming languages, some rather outré. Sure, many of those languages have great utility and are widely adopted, and with good, valid reason. Some arguably should be widely adopted but aren't, yet. 

But some computer languages engender a culture of worship and others of workaday acceptance. When a language's apologists cross too far into claiming The One True Way I get very suspicious.

Java's adherents are among its harshest critics. Everyone's got an opinion and most of them are right. You can't usually actually change the language, but sometimes enough mass gets behind an idea to affect the Powers That Be. Meanwhile the curmudgeons continue to work the language adroitly, dodging the very ugliness with safe idioms and making good software happen on the strengths.

I am a fan of such cynical support because it bodes keeping the Emperor clothed. As the adviser told the Prince when bearing distasteful advice, "When thou art King, wouldst rather the bitter truth and always trust in those who counsel, or sweet lies and always wonder whose is the wisdom?"

-- 
Lew
I regret that I do not recall the attribution for that advice. David Weber? David Drake? Weis and Hickman? One in a series of well-written fantasy novels, whomever.

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EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-24 21:37 +0000
  Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Marty Blake <blake3334@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-03-24 23:13 -0400
    Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-25 13:09 +0000
      Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-25 11:42 -0400
        Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-25 12:22 -0400
          Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-25 17:10 +0000
        Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-25 16:46 +0000
          Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-25 12:59 -0400
            Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-25 17:15 +0000
              Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-03-25 14:08 -0400
                Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-25 18:34 +0000
  Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-03-25 10:46 -0700
    Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-25 18:13 +0000
  Re: EXIF tag handling in Java "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-03-25 14:45 -0400
    Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-25 23:37 +0000
      Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 11:56 -0700
        Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-26 19:48 +0000
        Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-26 19:52 +0000
          Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 13:29 -0700
            Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2012-03-26 21:58 +0000
              Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 16:24 -0700
                Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-26 18:19 -0700
                Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-03-26 19:03 -0700
                Re: EXIF tag handling in Java Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-27 09:06 -0700

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