Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gene Wirchenko Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: StringBuilder Difficulties Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:19:50 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: <38um0755dut4ikf1347brih75nj26ahjrd@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="15061"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194/15JEcSlwcYHnP5fvfpIma2vGeHxmPI=" X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 Cancel-Lock: sha1:C3JlZzAC1uuSGww7QY1tCks7spU= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:5780 On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:48:40 -0400, Lew wrote: >Eric Sosman wrote: >> Summary: Fer Crissakes, Gene, read the damn' book! > >And don't go plonking everyone who gives you good advice, either, Gene. Eric, I do not. I plonked one person who called my sanity into question. As I like to say, disagreeing one thing, but being disagreeable is quite another. Snarking on sanity is the latter. >like markspace before him, is giving you good advice. Follow it instead of >copping an attitude like you did before. > >Straight, unvarnished, blunt truth can feel bad at first, but it helps you. >It really does. The attitude of some posters is that they are Keepers of the Truth. I suggest that there are different realities. I have programmed in quite a few programming languages. I see no need to jettison what I have learned, because some practice is different with Java. If it is better, I will consider using it. If it does not meet my needs, I see no need to use it regardless of what Java practice is. >Also, refusal to learn harms you. I do not refuse to learn, but I know what I want to accomplish with my program. A number of the suggestions have been plain irrelevant. Some of them have been quite useful, but those subthreads tend to die, because there is no need for further discussion. Thus, discussion tends to continue only on points of contention. They are not the only points. There is more agreement than disagreement, but you would not know that the way some posters keep coming at me. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko