On Mar 24, 12:33 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > ... it explain a little about the mentality of > "hackers", whom there are a great deal of in the Linux community.
His world seems to be divided into "cool" and "uncool" and governed by the fear of being seen to be "uncool". Hence the first priority is to determine which camp Java falls into before even looking at it. Unfortunately, one of the factors that make a language a failure (in his eyes) is that it is widely used and widely understood and, therefore, "mainstream". "Mainstream" is always deeply "uncool", so the more people use the language then the greater a failure it is. It reminded me a lot of a friend of mine who was a massive fan of new music but would drop his support for any band the moment anyone else heard of them (because they had compromised thie integrity and gone "mainstream"). --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
