Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Blog Post: Java is deliberately not programmer-orientated

2010-09-18 Thread Russel Winder
or patent on WORA.) -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc Descrip

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Blog Post: Java is deliberately not programmer-orientated

2010-09-18 Thread Russel Winder
ere. Made up number do not turn into facts simply by repetition. Opinion has its place, and can be interesting, but not when purveyed as supposedly statistically based fact. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Blog Post: Java is deliberately not programmer-orientated

2010-09-20 Thread Russel Winder
Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signatu

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: [Scala] Martin Odersky says: Skills required

2010-10-02 Thread Russel Winder
t alright :-) Hummm... people who started with Basic and yet have become good programmers in a number of languages must have great powers of recovery and regeneration. This must mean they are either vampires or trolls ;-) -- Russel. =====

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: [Scala] Martin Odersky says: Skills required

2010-10-02 Thread Russel Winder
own amusement. Every programmer should study all the languages mentioned, and many others including Go, D, Erlang, Prolog. No matter which language you use day-to-day your programming is improved by knowing at a "can work in this language" level many different language with different com

Re: [The Java Posse] Is there a trend away from programming for current computing university students.

2010-10-08 Thread Russel Winder
think though that > using examples like ATM machines is hardly going make students exited > about programming. -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770

Re: [The Java Posse] Is there a trend away from programming for current computing university students.

2010-10-08 Thread Russel Winder
ople are on the wrong degree course. People who find > programming to be something to avoid should not be on a CS course, > simple as that. Worse, some (non-CS) degree courses are advertised as > not containing any programming, and then actually do. Far to many people on CS courses remain fai

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is there a trend away from programming for current computing university students.

2010-10-08 Thread Russel Winder
ss, but it is a poor set of staff who end up constraining themselves overly by the results. Curriculum should and should be expected to evolve appropriately within the framework of the validation. -- Russel. = Dr Russel Wi

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is there a trend away from programming for current computing university students.

2010-10-08 Thread Russel Winder
-- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: r

Re: [The Java Posse] Patent no. 6,748,582

2010-10-10 Thread Russel Winder
t least fined. The patent system makes this otherwise criminal behaviour a standard business model. -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 0

Re: [The Java Posse] Patent no. 6,748,582

2010-10-10 Thread Russel Winder
;p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=D624,916.PN.&OS=PN/D624,916&RS=PN/D624,916 http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/D624916.html -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 75

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Patent no. 6,748,582

2010-10-10 Thread Russel Winder
w surely blown out of the water. At least to date the UK Patent Office has carefully vetted most patent applications for "obviousness" and "prior art". As with any system some dross slips through. The EU Patent Office is seemingly less careful and more in the pockets of &quo

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Patent no. 6,748,582

2010-10-10 Thread Russel Winder
nt game. But then I am not a lawyer. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Oracle/IBM Pact cuts Android off at the Knees

2010-10-12 Thread Russel Winder
ly a bigger seat at high table. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.o

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Oracle/IBM Pact cuts Android off at the Knees

2010-10-13 Thread Russel Winder
1860--1914 period. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.ru

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Excellent article about Google's response to Oracle

2010-10-18 Thread Russel Winder
comment. Please note the smiley in this remark. Humour is required in life, otherwise it all gets too serious. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster

Re: [The Java Posse] No more JME on Meego?

2010-10-21 Thread Russel Winder
Your assertion appears to have only contrary evidence given the number of new clients I have requesting Java ME training as they are creating new products for Java ME platforms. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +

Re: [The Java Posse] No more JME on Meego?

2010-10-21 Thread Russel Winder
t to income? -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.or

Re: [The Java Posse] No more JME on Meego?

2010-10-21 Thread Russel Winder
-- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc Descriptio

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: But do people really refactor?

2010-11-23 Thread Russel Winder
de, and especially comments, like Emacs can. So what everyone needs for writing code is a kitchen sink. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: But do people really refactor?

2010-11-23 Thread Russel Winder
On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 12:53 -0800, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Russel Winder > wrote: > I still have the problem that no IDE can format code, and > especially > comments, like Emacs can. > > I'll t

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: But do people really refactor?

2010-11-24 Thread Russel Winder
enerally separately from a compiler!) an AST from text so as to add all the interaction capabilities. So the real question is why do we as a community continue to require that a text form of software be the form that is stored on disc? > -- Russel. =========

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: is the iPhone Development Environment Superior to Android's?

2010-11-24 Thread Russel Winder
e the Oracle purchase), are discriminating against Linux and Solaris (!) and for Windows and Mac OS X. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: But do people really refactor?

2010-11-24 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 00:06 -0800, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Russel Winder > wrote: > > > > Indeed configuring Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA and NetBeans seems > to be a > mammoth task

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: But do people really refactor?

2010-11-24 Thread Russel Winder
ST to handle colouring, Emacs uses regular expressions and keyword matching. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@rus

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: But do people really refactor?

2010-11-25 Thread Russel Winder
, and which often mask all the really important features that people would find very helpful if they did use them. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmast

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: But do people really refactor?

2010-11-25 Thread Russel Winder
hat I was saying. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skyp

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Can't wait for the discussion on this one... Apple bans magazine with articles about android from app store.

2010-11-30 Thread Russel Winder
utesy kittens. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.o

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Can't wait for the discussion on this one... Apple bans magazine with articles about android from app store.

2010-11-30 Thread Russel Winder
m by writing apps for them. But it's Catch-22 isn't it. Because the Apple products have become "must have" for the fashion conscious, someone will write the apps even if it isn't you. Apple always win. -- Russel. =====

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: get your popcorn: oracle opens another front with the oss community

2010-12-02 Thread Russel Winder
ould just ask Kohsuke. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.r

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: get your popcorn: oracle opens another front with the oss community

2010-12-03 Thread Russel Winder
ar would do well to provide equivalents. > -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The ASF left JCP

2010-12-12 Thread Russel Winder
e is therefore determined by being a man trying to look like a woman. Of course heart attacks are caused by televisions -- this is provable statistically. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:ru

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The ASF left JCP

2010-12-12 Thread Russel Winder
reased population leads to higher incidences of heart attacks, and increased population leads to increased ownership of televisions. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The ASF left JCP

2010-12-12 Thread Russel Winder
t; -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Javascript should replace Java in College Courses

2010-12-14 Thread Russel Winder
are right about "operational semantics" so we agree that far too many current courses are in general failing their students by given that just the surface and not given them the full model to understand how the JVM or CLR work. -- Russel. ===

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Javascript should replace Java in College Courses

2010-12-14 Thread Russel Winder
les. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc Descri

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Javascript should replace Java in College Courses

2010-12-14 Thread Russel Winder
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 17:54 +0100, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > On 12/14/2010 04:41 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > > > >> Programmers would be better trained if the first language they're taught > >> is a traditional that compiles into native code, such as C. You kno

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Javascript should replace Java in College Courses

2010-12-14 Thread Russel Winder
ered at least two languages. Also this procedural/OO split is the wrong way of doing things, it creates artificial barriers in the minds of the students. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voi

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Javascript should replace Java in College Courses

2010-12-14 Thread Russel Winder
1960s. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_win

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: For loop is harmful

2011-01-07 Thread Russel Winder
y multi-threading is a good thing for all applications development? The fact that they have got away with not really knowing how to work with threads properly has been a fluke. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44

Re: [The Java Posse] For loop is harmful

2011-01-07 Thread Russel Winder
is proposed to not to be in Java 7. So campaign to get Parallel Arrays into Java 7. In the meantime you can use GPars (http://gpars.codehaus.org) which can be used direct from Java even though it is a Groovy-based system. -- Russel. =========

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: For loop is harmful

2011-01-07 Thread Russel Winder
ly just playing catchup to avoid losing market share. So yes, this really is system on a chip. -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +

Re: [The Java Posse] For loop is harmful

2011-01-07 Thread Russel Winder
all these nice parallelism goodies today -- without having to wait for the (potentially mythical :-) Java 7. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm

Re: [The Java Posse] For loop is harmful

2011-01-08 Thread Russel Winder
up using list comprehensions by choice simply because it is presented as the imperative, data-driven way. -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Computer Science Education

2011-01-14 Thread Russel Winder
problems Java has when it comes to priming the JVM JIT, yet no Scala advocate has yet been able to provide me with a good rationale as to why. -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:rus

Re: [The Java Posse] Mercurial vs Git

2011-02-02 Thread Russel Winder
ou are using. What is your evidence/data/argument that Bazaar is substandard compared to Git and Mercurial? -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm:

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Joe, Android is Java - not really

2011-02-12 Thread Russel Winder
t is a lesson in how to create instant legacy systems. The whole VM/configuration/profile + JSR mess might have been a good move in 1998, but . . . > -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Joe, Android is Java - not really

2011-02-12 Thread Russel Winder
using ;-) -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Joe, Android is Java - not really

2011-02-13 Thread Russel Winder
o the multiprocessors they already have. And 3-D holographic screens will be mandatory. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 07

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java still TIOBE King

2011-02-13 Thread Russel Winder
didn't get the original reference to tablet . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_(confectionery) -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Mercurial vs Git

2011-02-16 Thread Russel Winder
an improvement evolution of CVCS, even for proprietary software not just FOSS (for which DVCS should now be considered mandatory). -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Mercurial vs Git

2011-02-16 Thread Russel Winder
repository! -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc Description: T

Re: [The Java Posse] Is learning languages overrated?

2011-03-02 Thread Russel Winder
quivalence class, but the core benefit it from cross equivalence class fertilization. -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is learning languages overrated?

2011-03-03 Thread Russel Winder
computation stuff will still be done in Fortran and C++. If you are happy to exclude practicing your software development activity in those areas then restricting yourself to the JVM is fine. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is learning languages overrated?

2011-03-03 Thread Russel Winder
e observation is that Java is not in the frame for these rewrites which is why Python has become the dynamic language of choice: it's all native code, so no place for a JVM. However, I digress . . . ;-) -- Russel. =======

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is learning languages overrated?

2011-03-03 Thread Russel Winder
about it. It's all about the serendipity as much as hard work, which is why knowing functional programming and logic programming properly helps your imperative programming. To get back on topic . . . :-) -- Russel. ===

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Is learning languages overrated?

2011-03-04 Thread Russel Winder
. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype:

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: parallel / multicore (i.e. functional): Overrated?

2011-03-06 Thread Russel Winder
re, a synonym for parallel, computing has hijacked this term with a subtly different meaning :-) -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The Purpose of Software Patents

2011-03-08 Thread Russel Winder
hem then you are in the game, if you don't you aren't. Lone inventors are not in the game. -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The Purpose of Software Patents

2011-03-08 Thread Russel Winder
Cédric, On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 07:18 -0800, Cédric Beust ♔ wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Russel Winder > wrote: > > > OK so let's have a data point. Exhibit A. > http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=26aJE

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The Purpose of Software Patents

2011-03-08 Thread Russel Winder
ng appropriate tools. ACTA is though a monster too far -- exactly because it has far more to it than the originally intended brand protection. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win..

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The Purpose of Software Patents

2011-03-08 Thread Russel Winder
etorical question that leads to conspiracy theories. Sadly though the conspiracies are genuine :-( And then there is ACTA. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buc

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The Purpose of Software Patents

2011-03-09 Thread Russel Winder
GSM cartel. Does OPEC count? -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK

Re: Is XML a programming language?; Was: [The Java Posse] Is learning languages overrated?

2011-03-09 Thread Russel Winder
elliJ IDEA already has some support for Gradle files. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.u

Re: [The Java Posse] Is learning languages overrated?

2011-03-09 Thread Russel Winder
r than having to build a special plugin. So you never have to get into writing plugins -- unless that is actually the right thing to do. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekig

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The Purpose of Software Patents

2011-03-10 Thread Russel Winder
t hold of course. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signa

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: The Purpose of Software Patents

2011-03-10 Thread Russel Winder
oop twice now, I wouldn't choose any other mechanism. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk L

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Object Oriented Programming is out of the CMU Computer Science Introductory Curriculum

2011-03-23 Thread Russel Winder
at they are talking about. It is also true that there are people teaching programming who are far, far, far better programmers than anyone in industry and commerce -- bar none. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Object Oriented Programming is out of the CMU Computer Science Introductory Curriculum

2011-03-23 Thread Russel Winder
the final victory of the Paradigm Wars. Looks like something analogous is happening in the USA. Did you fight in the Paradigm Wars? -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Object Oriented Programming is out of the CMU Computer Science Introductory Curriculum

2011-03-23 Thread Russel Winder
onics engineers, because they thought C++ was too airy fairy -- classes, that not real code. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Object Oriented Programming is out of the CMU Computer Science Introductory Curriculum

2011-03-23 Thread Russel Winder
digm of exactly what he was putting forward as science. > -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w:

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Object Oriented Programming is out of the CMU Computer Science Introductory Curriculum

2011-03-23 Thread Russel Winder
ur of some doublethink about function call being equivalent to message passing. Long live active objects! Pool-T, UC++, KC++ rule . . . -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Object Oriented Programming is out of the CMU Computer Science Introductory Curriculum

2011-03-24 Thread Russel Winder
I am happy with the way things are going forward, but if I were to do it again, I would probably do it differently, more like STL." -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga

Re: [The Java Posse] How to deal with CheckedExceptions

2011-03-24 Thread Russel Winder
of doing things. A return to a better way or just backward looking? -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Your Experience of Alternative JVM languages in Organisations, Divisions and Teams

2011-03-29 Thread Russel Winder
ten in when running on the JVM, only what happens in the future. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Your Experience of Alternative JVM languages in Organisations, Divisions and Teams

2011-03-30 Thread Russel Winder
re than just a Groovy wrapper to those Java frameworks. > project. Are any of them the new big foss thing? For some people yes, > for others no. > -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Your Experience of Alternative JVM languages in Organisations, Divisions and Teams

2011-03-30 Thread Russel Winder
ems. But from very different locations -- antipodes almost ;-) > -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russe

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Your Experience of Alternative JVM languages in Organisations, Divisions and Teams

2011-03-31 Thread Russel Winder
ild that really needs to be fixed. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: ww

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: question about JVM optimizations and instantiating stateless "function" objects

2011-04-29 Thread Russel Winder
later (enum's, annotation etc.), lately it's dynamic language support, > automatic resource management, lambda expressions etc. So will Oracle remove type erasure so that full type information is available at runtime? -- Russel. =====

Re: [The Java Posse] groovy as java.next() ?

2011-05-08 Thread Russel Winder
er than dynamic" as an abstract absolute, I stop reading and delete. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus..

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Oracle Proposes Hudson Move to Eclipse Foundation

2011-05-10 Thread Russel Winder
uately explained by incompetence." may be appropriate in this situation. > -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Oracle Proposes Hudson Move to Eclipse Foundation

2011-05-10 Thread Russel Winder
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 13:18 +0200, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: > On 05/10/2011 12:40 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > > > > I think: > > > > "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by > > incompetence." > > > > may be appropriate in

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Oracle Proposes Hudson Move to Eclipse Foundation

2011-05-10 Thread Russel Winder
hat matter. -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk sk

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Scala 2.9 released, Akka 1.1 released; Scala Solutions and Scalable Solutions merge, new Typesafe company

2011-05-12 Thread Russel Winder
superiority is not a guarantee of commercial success. And then there was U-matic. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 4

Re: [The Java Posse] Java Card still active?

2011-05-25 Thread Russel Winder
what Oracle are doing with it . . . -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK

Re: [The Java Posse] Java Card still active?

2011-05-25 Thread Russel Winder
ylum. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc Description: Th

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Java Card still active?

2011-05-25 Thread Russel Winder
Nick, On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 03:49 -0700, Nick Wiedenbrueck wrote: > On 25 Mai, 11:49, Russel Winder wrote: > > I assume that EMV and other smartcards are still being programmed in > > either C, EC++ or Java Card. Given the increasing importance of smart > > cards in the wor

Re: [The Java Posse] What is your favorite programming font?

2011-05-25 Thread Russel Winder
lly over the years. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype:

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 19 Messages in 4 Topics

2011-06-02 Thread Russel Winder
d and fully compiled, and Java because most of the extant infrastructure is written in that language. Why do we have to have just one language? -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win.

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 19 Messages in 4 Topics

2011-06-02 Thread Russel Winder
s for ;-) -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 19 Messages in 4 Topics

2011-06-02 Thread Russel Winder
, but interesting to me) techniques are lost. Groovy++ is just a phase of programming that sits between the chaos that is Groovy and the verbose restriction that is Java. This is not a black/white issue, it's all a question of what level of grey you want. -- Russel. ====

Re: [The Java Posse] Digest for javaposse@googlegroups.com - 19 Messages in 4 Topics

2011-06-02 Thread Russel Winder
d Groovy is dynamically typed not untyped, but no need to repeat the other fragment of this thread. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Vs: What is your favorite programming font?

2011-06-05 Thread Russel Winder
, etc., it works surprisingly well as a counterpoint to Ocean Sans. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: IBM's Erich Gamma joins Microsoft

2011-06-06 Thread Russel Winder
kes TestNG redundant! -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder si

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: IBM's Erich Gamma joins Microsoft

2011-06-08 Thread Russel Winder
or example 400 of them meet every year in Oxford in April. It's called the ACCU conference and I would back them as far better programmers than nigh on everyone on this list. [ . . . ] -- Russel. = Dr Russel Win

Re: [The Java Posse] Groovy development on OS X

2011-06-18 Thread Russel Winder
lipse/Groovy/PyDev/Scala much of the time as it is readable and just about does the job. I use IntelliJ IDEA when I have to. Most of the time I use Emacs + command line. The only loss is the integration with the API documentation -- which is about the only really useful thing that IDEs provide. -

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Jax Innovation Awards 2011: And the Winners Are...

2011-06-24 Thread Russel Winder
have. I agree though that few languages that claim to have properly supported parameterized types do. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road

Re: [The Java Posse] Apple wins patent suit against HTC: All of android likely to follow.

2011-07-19 Thread Russel Winder
come out winners. As indeed will Microsoft, just by sitting on the sidelines and cheering. HTC will have to make sure they come out not losers. -- Russel. ========= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: JDK7 launch for today !

2011-07-29 Thread Russel Winder
sn't even appear on http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk7/features/ not even as an item for JDK 8 or later. -- Russel. = Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Are there any techie SUPPORTERS of software patents left?

2011-08-08 Thread Russel Winder
have to do what the Chinese want them to, when they want them to. -- Russel. ===== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Roadm: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@russel.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

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