Re: Value of JAVA400-L to a newbie

["Joe Pluta " <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Buck, thanks alot.  I appreciate the note.  Again, I'm not against newbie 
questions, I just have a problem with certain attitudes.  What I'd LIKE to see 
is both JAVA400-L and JAVA101-L flourish.  And I hope that you continue to 
pursue the language, and all the other new technologies that the AS/400 is 
beginning to incorporate.  And I apologize for what was hopefully just a brief, 
if unpleasant, interlude.

Joe


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@aptissoftware.com>
Reply-To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:01:24 -0500

>Joe,
I very much understand your frustration and your desire to shape the list in
a way that's pleasing to you.  I also very much appreciate the opportunity
to watch bits of an application take form.  It has been a long road, but not
completely without merit for me.

This forum was (until JAVA-101) the only place I could read and post
questions that an AS/400 person could understand.  I've gotten real benefit
from it.  You see, Our company doesn't yet use Java.  At all.  I want to be
in front of the curve.  I've downloaded Bruce Eckel's book "Thinking in
Java" and am reading it.  I have a copy of Ivor Horton's "Beginning Java 2"
and am reading it.   I'm working my way through the Sun and IBM tutorials as
well as the fine stuff on zappie.net.  This list is an excellent supplement
because it is an admixture of AS/400 and "other" platform people.

I just want to tell you that you and your fellow experienced crewmembers'
time was not wasted, despite the fact that I'm a newbie.

Thanks!

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
"Nothing is so firmly believed as
 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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