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Re: Surprise!

Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Date 2020-04-27 06:36 -0700
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Subject Re: Surprise!
From Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com>

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On Monday, April 27, 2020 at 8:13:04 AM UTC-4, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> > Calling 1.8 "recent" is quite a stretch ;)
> >
> True enough, but AFAIK its still supported, alongside 11 and 14, for 
> Fedora Linux. I recently saw stats (in The Register) showing the majority 
> of developers are still using 8, and #242 is the most recent Java 8 
> release.
> 
> If its just as easy to move from Java 8 to 11 or 14 as it still is to 
> compile a K&R source file under that latest ANSI C compiler, then I'm 
> happy to move on, but is it that easy? Somehow I've gotten the impression 
> that it may not be.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Martin    | martin at
> Gregorie  | gregorie dot org

I'm using 8 right now.  It is easy enough to move from 8 to 11 (when is the next LTS?) but getting government approval?

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Re: Surprise! Jeff Higgins <invalid@invalid.org> - 2020-04-26 05:06 -0400
  Re: Surprise! Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2020-04-26 13:00 +0000
    Re: Surprise! Joerg Meier <joergmmeier@arcor.de> - 2020-04-27 09:13 +0200
      Re: Surprise! Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2020-04-27 12:12 +0000
        Re: Surprise! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-27 08:34 -0400
          Re: Surprise! Martin Gregorie <martin@mydomain.invalid> - 2020-04-27 13:52 +0000
            Re: Surprise! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-27 10:04 -0400
          Re: Surprise! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-27 10:09 -0400
        Re: Surprise! Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2020-04-27 06:36 -0700
          Re: Surprise! Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2020-04-27 09:46 -0400

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