Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: no more primitive data types in Java (JDK 10+). What do you think? Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:17:52 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: <31946709.2630.1334888553396.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbcsy1> <1kjq7upn72ead.dnfbqpmw22at$.dlg@40tude.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net imGF07MQueMDBy2zMZ+pN2EL+xW0nG0q6fHqvAQOsLgWJzYZovmxD19QbmLcFS+cdi3MNs+TXRf/d2ZtDtqK9IpWpQS1HF3AQCi0BqDrEYd8EblF0QhOdRdxrg8Lux72 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:17:54 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="Y8VLfK7t/2spmX/K5XAxmEmkpjoUGjXVEtyqjQfnJUckHEZiRigN4H2U3I/AvLUCWM3M7qGxnxnFmruBkDUnris24DOsUoqEe+naBCFGVs9VPWjvEuN7FluhebNyPpD7"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 In-Reply-To: <1kjq7upn72ead.dnfbqpmw22at$.dlg@40tude.net> Cancel-Lock: sha1:khnzvkFND00lF/ix4x9yRxjOJ/Q= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:13699 On 04/19/2012 11:15 PM, Peter Duniho wrote: > On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:22:33 -0700 (PDT), Lew wrote: > >> Arved Sandstrom wrote: >>> This is the teens of the 21st century after all. >> >> Quibble: Not until next year. > > Yeah, but you have to take into account the kind of people who insisted > that the new millennium started on Jan 1, 2000. :) The concept of "teens" > may be more, um...flexible to some people than to others. But it did, by popular acclaim. There is no "real" millennium other than the day after whenever it was hardest to get New Year's Eve hotel reservations at Times Square. Prince didn't write "party like it's 2000" or entitle his album "2000". There weren't mass panics at the end of 1000, but at the end of 999. I thumb my nose at those who pedantically insist that the millennium must begin in 2001 because there was no "year zero" and remind them that there was no "year one" either until about what, three or four centuries later, and no agreement on that for millennia after. Nor did those early years begin on Jan. 1. So really the pedants should claim April 2, 2001, as Millennium Day, accounting for the Gregorian calendar shift. And if thirteen years starts the "teens", then they start April 2, 2014. Half-assed pedants; don't even follow through. I'm'a go where the party at while y'all argue over when the millennium begins. > (For the record, I'm with you, but I hardly ever try to explain this sort > of mistake to people who make them any more :) ) I enjoy it. -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg