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A good friend of mine used to have "cat juggler" as his title and I was thinking about using "software plumber" as mine at one point.
Fair enough, I used to have "problem solver" or "I solve your problems for a fee" as mine.
I tend to prefer somebody who admits to be a religiously attached to something than those who pretend to be objective about it and deep inside they are not. Not sure this is the case, but that's how I read it.
OK, I just got surprised. I'm giving a talk on "Software and Artistic _expression_" in two weeks, so I kind of understand code as speech. From there to code as scripture there is just some sliding slope.
I can grok evangelist as a metaphor, but being a Theologian would in my view mean that src.zip is some sort of holy scripture, thing that I'm far from believing. Oh, and heresy outside of the JCP church. :-P
What is more, such a title helps building on the tradition of java as a "mono(theistic)culture", together with the .NET. one
Just yesterday I got squeak/smalltalk communities criticized (and I agree) for being too closed in themselves, and it rang bells about java being sort of the same. Having been part of both communities, I can't but sympathise with Ben Hyde's "Small Gods" post: http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2003/06/small-gods
Getting closer to topic, I wonder if someone can post here a subjective summary of the ideas on support for dynamic languages in future java. I'm concerned about the stagnation of jython (barely commits since 2.2a1) and I would also like to know how far is support for dynamic languages going to be.
In particular, things like smalltalk's primitive "anObject become: anotherObject", which will turn all references to an object to references to a different one seem difficult to mix with the static typing nature of java, and I would like to know more about the approach they are going to take for such kind of problems.
Regards
Santiago
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