Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: How to turn off those warning messages during ant build? Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 21:28:46 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <32649009.2052.1333546152596.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbsf4> <15429764.10.1333589060953.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbae2> <10168300.3443.1333651355770.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcto7> <4f7e2ee4$0$288$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4f87737c$0$285$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HSlJAUb3pGXi3i7ZL/HoAw"; logging-data="14542"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/0TmVUx+l/sRSjtVwLJ6te" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120327 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4f87737c$0$285$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:eVnULVjxSdlwM0UQknj2nEnPvDU= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13511 On 4/12/2012 8:29 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 4/5/2012 10:41 PM, Eric Sosman wrote: >> On 4/5/2012 7:46 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >>> On 4/5/2012 2:42 PM, Lew wrote: >>>> [...] "They developed it >>>> for Java 1.4 eight years ago" is not even a pitiful excuse. Java 5 is >>>> already obsolete, and Java 6 is not far behind. Move forward or die. >>> >>> It is not technical debt. >>> >>> Technical debt is when the code was not good when written. >>> >>> Here something externally changed. >> >> So the debt is incurred by Java itself, not by the code written >> in Java? Okay, then: It's not a technical debt, it's a technical tax. > > You just invented a new term. > > And I like it - with the note that while technical debt is > a negative thing to have then a technical tax is a good thing > (ones platform is very much alive). In my country, taxes are imposed from without (whatever they say about "representation"), are paid grudgingly, and are viewed as an unpleasant burden. Denmark must be different. -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid