Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Microsoft Word as a Java-IDE Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 09:34:17 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <730p9dhn2rh5.rapzjjfevjie$.dlg@40tude.net> <55991afc$0$301$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2015 13:32:53 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="858a9d65d95f4ea4d355bd116aa2cdbf"; logging-data="19638"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/QOH7JmF8rDSX4tfzOsReb" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:xt0HLbsOJ+B63tT6P6jyVmvrBf0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:31962 On 7/5/2015 9:24 AM, Eternal Hope wrote: > On 05/07/2015 14:09, Eric Sosman wrote: >> On 7/5/2015 8:47 AM, Eternal Hope wrote: >>> [...] >>> Gotta be a scam. Does anyone actually fall for this snake oil? >> >> Only the people who pay attention to pseudonymous FUD-flingers. > > Sorry, but suggesting that you can become a 'skillful user' of a huge > and complex language like Java in two weeks is absurd. It also devalues > your own skills, skills that may have taken half a working lifetime to > obtain. Do you understand this? Do you understand that pelting someone with mud while cowering behind a shield of anonymity might be considered impolite at best, or unprofessional at worst? As far as I can tell you first appeared on Usenet three days ago (in this guise), and your total participation has amounted to one substantive post, two snarky posts, and four personal attacks on Stefan Ram. Given so brief a history it is perhaps rash of me to form an opinion of you, but nonetheless I have done so. -- esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid "Don't be afraid of work. Make work afraid of you." -- TLM