On Sunday 19 September 2010 01:58:51 Arun Khan wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 7:48 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Saturday 18 September 2010 14:38:49 Indranil Das Gupta wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 1:57 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> [snipped] > >> > >> is that 4~6 years or 46 years? > >> > >> > considering that linux is around 19 yrs old, it might just be > >> > a tad difficult to find the right bloke. > >> > >> Heh! reminds me of a job ad asking for 5+ years experience on > >> Java when it was just about 2 - 3 years old back in the late 90s > >> :) > > > > In 95 we were looking out for a java trainer and managed to find > > an Iraqi refugee in Mumbai who new Java. He was hired pronto. > > Did you mean "new to Java." or "knew Java." ?
;-). Difficult to say as we knew nothing. But from hindsight, 3 others (excluding me) could whip up some good JAVA code after 3 months of tutoring, it should be knew. We abandoned java after about a year, as it was slooow and was very constrained (according to the others). I have the Java 1.2 unleashed book. We continued with our older stuff on PASCAL and Delphi until 2000. In 99 my brother got hold of a RH 5.2 cd, shortly after I managed to get a RH6.0 (afair) book and cd for Rs.500 odd, and by 2000 linux was the platform. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
