-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 André,
On 10/31/2009 4:59 AM, André Warnier wrote: > I know, someone is going to say that one shouldn't > mess around in a nuclear power plant if one hasn't read the manual. Oddly enough, Sun's Java source (that is, the source code to the .java files that they give out with their JDK distros) used to include the following warning. It looks like it's been moved into their general license which you can read in full here: http://www.java.com/en/download/license.jsp Under the "Restrictions" section: " You acknowledge that Licensed Software is not designed or intended for use in the design, construction, operation or maintenance of any nuclear facility. " > But look right here : we have Christopher who is evidently a competent > Java programmer (if I judge by the fact that more than 50% of the code > he posts is totally cryptic to me), and he did not know there even > existed such a class in the basic java.io hierarchy. To be fair, this is a Java 1.6 class, and I'm perpetually stuck in the dark ages as evidenced by my somewhat recent upgrade from a 1.4 JVM and a 4.1.x Tomcat to a mere 1.5 JVM and Tomcat 5.5. With a little luck, we'll move up to TC 6 in development for our next cycle and then go to production with it, too. Maybe we'll get crazy and go for Java 1.6 too. At any rate, this is why I sometimes take some time to peruse the Javadoc for the standard library, even when I have nothing in particular to look for. Looking through everything in java.util is a good thing to do for basic classes for most of your ADTs that you had to self-code in programming classes you may have taken. Hash table? No problem. Hash table that spits out keys in predictable order? No problem. The list goes on. > I mean that once you learn the basic of the language, apart from "Hello > World" (and one could even argue about that), you are not very advanced, > since just about everything you need to do requires the import of about > 5 class hierarchies, and that finding these classes and understanding > their quirks turns out to be 90% of any serious undertaking. The same can really be said about just about any programming language. Although I "know" C++, I wouldn't ever take a job doing it because I suck at it. On the other hand, I've been told by friends who routinely hire C++ programmers that they'd rather have me hacking their C++ than a lot of their folks because at least my stuff will work properly even if it's not done "properly" in C++ -- that is, in the purest, C++y way that can be done. > More seriously, maybe it is just the lack of some overall, > comprehensive, searchable archive which is the biggest problem. Yeah, Sun hasn't really jumped-into this whole community thing very well. IMO they see their "community" as a source of JSR interference and not much else :( > When I need something in Perl, I usually need 2 and only 2 searches : in > the index of the Perl programming Manual (the Camel book), and in the > CPAN archive. Really, GIYF here. Or, just ask any of your friends who are Java wonks. Most Java folks either know a "package that'll do that" or knows someone who knows. It's not a great system, but it often works. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkruCGUACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PBFfQCcDRSZE34tAvtgOsUxiV0UyksI VKgAn0iMziMd0+INjveTewQOJhZNmEMW =8wsY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
