I agree with your points, but I can see Joe "Cougar Magnet's" point - its about the hassle of choice. Choice is intuitively a good thing, but every choice you make takes energy, more energy then you realise. So you can spend a lot of time choosing, and be exhausted without actually doing any real work.
On Sep 26, 9:28 am, edencane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > In response to episode 206 about Libraries. > First a disclaimer: > I have listened to all JP episodes and I love you guys. > > Ok. Libraries. I saw the other thread on this and frankly: No one > seems to get it! > Maybe they did and I didnt read it, then apologies... > > 1.0 Librarylibrary.com > > No one's thinking outside the box on this. All responses to the > Library discussion are, no offence, sucked in. > We dont need Librarylibrary.com. It's a bad idea! We dont live in the > 90's we live in the age of hypersearch. > Ever heard of CPAN? Well we DONT NEED THAT. (BTW. Why did you omit > that in the discussion). > Dont get me wrong CPAN is/was great. > But we dont need another aggregation site. > We've got search. > So forget the site that bundles all java libraries... Use google. > A well crafted search can deliver you every library you'll need for > Java. > Like Tor said: he needed a YAML library, so he googled. Nothing else > needed! > > 2.0 Multitudinous libraries > > Limiting the amount of java libraries is like trying to blot out part > of the sky at night coz it's just too bright. Well, wear sunnies at > night! > The bazaar. Think chaos upon chaos. With the wealth of libraries out > there we are able form a mass of libraries from which there will be > the uberperformers. > (Thinking of Hibernate here). > The fact that there are thousands of frameworks, doesnt mean we need > to get rid of some of them or, God forbid, standardise[Ugh]. It means > we are more likely, at some point, to strike the one governs them all. > > Think Lame jokes. The posse should know what Im talking about (-; > If there are enought lame jokes, then the bed is made for that one > killer joke. > Think sports. When China has excelling gymnasts that take all the gold > medals, take into the picture all those gymnasts that just didnt make > the grade and then the multitudes of gymnasts that the China was able > to pick them from (with a pool like that you're bound to come up with > winners). > These 2 examples serve to illustrate that having a wealth of > development and effort out there, means swifter progress, more > interchange of ideas and fertile ground for the development community > (especially if projects are open source). > > I thought Tor was the only one in the discussion who some sort of > connection with reality. > Go Tor! > > postdisclaimer: As you know guys I love you to bits and thanks for the > podcasts! > > Kind regards. > Luke Vanderfluit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
