20 Dec
2007
20 Dec
'07
6:30 a.m.
Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Antonio Carlini once
stated:
Yeah, my first commercial one was in the latter half of 1996. (It was all
client-server stuff and well over a million lines of code. Definitely one of
the bigger Java projects out there back then - which meant we had Sun trying
to throw Java-related hardware at us for evaluation, and boy did that stuff suck)
Perhaps I've inadvertently stumbled across a
solution to the perennial
"is this system on-topic in and of itself". If it can run Java then
"no"
:-).
Might have to have the List Wizard chime in here, but my first Java
project [1] was done over ten years ago. -spc (Java sucked back then too ... )
I didn't mind it back then - for real-world problems I was seeing around 90%
performance against native languages anyway, and so the language benefits and
ability to run on diverse hardware were real pluses.
Sun really lost the plot with the language in the late 90s when they tried to
appeal to the web generation though, and began preaching to people over how
they should create their apps. Bleh (kind of the software equivalent of
"everything is a PC").
cheers
J.