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On 6/27/2012 2:09 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote:
...
>       No, *your* overtly anti-social and self-aggrandising approach is
> not suitable.  I gave up on Java, partly because the language making
> certain things that I need awkward to do and partly because of the
> snarking.
>

I have largely given up on this newsgroup, and only drop in
occasionally, because of the tone of the discussion. In any case, this
newsgroup is dying from lack of new regulars, and I think that is a key
reason. If you get jumped on the first time you ask a question, why come
back? When I first showed up in comp.lang.java as a very experienced
programmer but new to Java, my questions were answered politely and my
mistakes were handled gently.

The failures of this newsgroup have not made me give up on Java, for
anything for which Java seems to me to be the most suitable of the
languages I know.

Of course, a language making things you need to do awkward is an
extremely good reason for using a different language. With so many
languages to choose from, there is no point fighting a language that is
not a good fit for what you are doing.

Patricia