Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jim Gibson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Do C++ and Java professionals use UML?? Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 15:05:13 -0700 Lines: 39 Message-ID: <250720121505132854%jimsgibson@gmail.com> References: <3qcr08lkpvcmhe0drpffhegusd6k2a1670@4ax.com> <2d84a3f9-fd83-42ae-a841-629d1e420752@googlegroups.com> <500f2352$0$282$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <54a01892mkfhftospg8c8r9h24mn35arcj@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net yaeGpcRp0+YU83tf0pEzhgXURtYQ2UdkxLrMW3qoKDc15Wvg/sYQ0xfF6d2jwt9ljD X-Orig-Path: jimsgibson Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wa0yxr43YHIBIP6L/psfA1gZV64= User-Agent: Thoth/1.9.0 (Mac OS X) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:16365 In article <54a01892mkfhftospg8c8r9h24mn35arcj@4ax.com>, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 06:44:39 -0700, Lew wrote: > > >Gene Wirchenko wrote: > >> Is there something available other than n gazillion (OK, 20000) > >> Web pages? > > > >You're the one who said a book would be superior to the online version! > > > >You sure changed your tune in a hurry there, sport! > > Not really. I have not looked for Java books before. It is not > enough that it be a book. It also has to be good. I have no > guarantee that there are any good ones. There may well be. For some > reason, there is not much for JavaScript with many having horrible > inaccuracies. The comp.lang.javascript FAQ lists two book with both > being considered flawed. I use and recommend "Learning Java", by Niemeyer & Knudsen, O'Reilly, 3rd Ed., 2005. The "Java In A Nutshell" and "Java Foundation Classes In A Nutshell" from the same publisher are also pretty good hard-copy references for the Java API. > > Lew, if you were trying to discourage people from using Java, I > can think of no better way than your harping. That sort of behaviour > by you and some others here is part of why I gave it up. It seems silly to fault a language because of the behavior of a few individuals on Usenet. -- Jim Gibson