Re: (fwd) JAVA SUCKS! T-Shirts, Now Available! (fwd)

>BTW, no-one has really explained why we should be so hostile to Java.
>What's the problem?

I don't think it is a problem with Java that generates such sentiments.
More likely it is the problem with the hype machines in this industry.
Bill Gates has emphatically shown us that marketing drives our industry,
no matter how much we pretend we are technology driven. 

As a result, products like Java become part of the media circus in order
to survive/succeed. So, people who have other technologies to pay
attention to find themselves deluged with hype about the new product. For
instance, I kept and ad for a long time which advertised hard drives, the
more expensive on being "Windows 95 compatible." The ad was printed
November 95, obviously to ride on the hype tidal wave. 

Products like the I hate Java t-shirt and Windows Sucks coffee cups are
simply additional ways of capitalizing on the hype. These products give
people who are tired of being told that they are incompetent unless they
are part of the Divine Movement of Java. 

Of course, there are those who do like to participate in programming
language holy wars. That's why the Usenet has .advocacy groups. ;-)

>Dave Kahn - TCO, Tengiz, Kazakstan





Chris Rehm
Mr.AS400@ibm.net
You have to ask yourself, "How often can I afford to be unexpectedly out of 
business?" 
Get an AS/400.
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