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From: Simon Lewis <simonlewis2001@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject: Re: error discription and solution
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:47:17 +0100
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Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> writes:

> On Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:17:07 -0600, Leif Roar Moldskred wrote:
>
>> Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> wrote:
>>> That is an unfair and disgenuine argument. Nobody is suggesting people
>>> don't LEARN how things work. You asked how to get something to work, not
>>> how to learn about how the Java build process works. Going by your answer,
>>> I would suggest you abandon Java completely, and instead focus on learning
>>> Assembler, which of course you should only ever write using Notepad.
>> Obligatory link to the Story of Mel:
>
>> http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
>
> Every few years, someone links this, and every time, I read it again to my
> great delight. As my life progresses, it's interesting for me to note how
> my view of Mel changed over the years - from uncompromising and unreflected
> hero worship when I was still young and a cowboy, to "I hope I never have
> to fix code like that" when I started working on multi-person projects for
> the first time, to "I hope I never have a coworker like that", ending with
> "I hope I never have an employee like that".
>
> Mel is, at once, the best and the worst aspects of a clever programmer.
>
> Liebe Gruesse,
> 		Joerg

Does he also say only losers need a debugger? That's another cracker
based on something Kernighan said 50 years ago when a large program was
about 32 lines long....