From: Mike@spam_free
Subject: Re: Java momentum slowing ?
Date: 1999/05/01
Date: 1999-05-01T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7ggi1v$p2i@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 372BB93F.7DCFD2E1@rocketmail.com
In article <372BB93F.7DCFD2E1@rocketmail.com>, Corey says...
>
>I think you're burying your head in the sand if you don't recognize that
>M$ is and will continue to be a force to reckon with in the software
>world.
If MS shoddy software is a force in the software
world, I feel now more sorry for the software world in
what it has put itself into.
I can recongnize that M$ software is used in many places,
but I don't have to follow the crowds blindly as many seem
to do, and I don't have to be one of those windows generation
programmers.
I've have developed software for few companies in
the last 3 years, and I am proud to say I have not
needed to write one single line of code on windows.
(That does not mean I do not know windows, I do, and
I have programmed on it before, and that is why
I decided to get away from it, I did not like it
at all).
All my work in the last 3 years has been on Unix. And
thanks to Java now, I'll never need to touch windows
for any reason again.
I really have no idea what do people use windows for (other
than games), as Unix and Linux has everything anyone wants,
and in much better quality, and with GNU/linux, I get
the source code also, and now with Java being used more
and more, it even removes the need for windows all together.
At number of places where I worked, we use Solaris and now
Linux starting to show up more, at home I use Linux. I write
everything from database applications, to GUI, to
transaction processing to network management software,
all on Unix and Linux and with Java and C/C++, and even
some Ada (thanks to GNAT being on Unix).
Why why would any one choose windows, a flaky and closed OS,
with licenses restrictions, and higher costs, over an open system
like Unix for developing applications on is beyond my
comprehension.
I can see the general public choosing windows out of
ignorance of the alternatives, but I am amazed when I see
technical pepole, managers, and software engineers who
should know better choosing windows to develop software on.
May be some of us have their head buried, but we love
where it is buried and for me, it does not seem to
have affected me in any way. I tell any new hiring
manager that I do not do windows, only Unix, and I
am more busy than ever, last year alone I made $400,000
in just contract programming fees :) (I have been programming
for 16 years now) and again, never touched one windoz box,
(well, I did touch them, but I do not program on them).
and I will never do.
regards,
Mike.
a windows liberated programmer and loving it.
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-04-29 0:00 Java momentum slowing ? Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-04-29 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-04-29 0:00 ` x
[not found] ` <7gesv8$1bol@drn.newsguy.com>
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-05-01 0:00 ` Mike [this message]
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-05-03 0:00 ` dvdeug
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-05-04 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-05 0:00 ` Tarjei Tj�stheim Jensen
1999-05-05 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-05 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-05-02 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-02 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-02 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Mitch
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Tom
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-05-04 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Tony Huynh
1999-04-30 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
[not found] ` <7gdlca$2j5l@drn.newsguy.com>
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-02 0:00 ` Bob
1999-05-03 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Matthew Whiting
1999-05-06 0:00 ` Renaming Ada (Re: Java momentum slowing ?) David Botton
1999-05-06 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Ada2001
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-07 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1999-05-07 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Matthew Whiting
1999-05-07 0:00 ` carlislemc
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Ronald Cole
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Java momentum slowing ? Bob Munck
1999-05-07 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-05-08 0:00 ` steve
1999-05-09 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-05-09 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-09 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-05-09 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-09 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Rob
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-09 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-09 0:00 ` bill
1999-05-09 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-09 0:00 ` Steve
1999-05-10 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-11 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-11 0:00 ` bob
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
1999-05-12 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Lance Kibblewhite
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-12 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Dave
1999-05-13 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-14 0:00 ` [OT] " Clayton Weaver
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Mitch
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-09 0:00 ` bill
1999-05-09 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Jean-Marten Marchi
1999-05-22 0:00 ` olefevre
1999-05-22 0:00 ` Bob
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