Comments on: You are not a ‘real’ Java developer until…

By: mnsharif

mnsharif — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:52:20 +0000

you are not a real java developer if you see this article and you leave the webpage before reading it in entirety with all 56 replies that follow

By: Tyrone Hed

Tyrone Hed — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:40:06 +0000

You’re not a real Java developer until you experience the exquisite agony of going back to hand-coding JDBC calls after having used Hibernate.

You’re not a real Java developer until you join a shop that–horrors–puts all their JDBC calls INSIDE THE JSP (and they don’t understand why that is an ABOMINATION).

By: Jakub Hegenbart

Jakub Hegenbart — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:05:32 +0000

Hmm, indentation gone wrong, I forgot that this thing in front of me uses HTML.

By: Jakub Hegenbart

Jakub Hegenbart — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:04:26 +0000

> Ruby (or perl, or python, or PHP) is far slower than Java. The real question we have to ask is : what to we want ? It seems we don’t really know.

There’s always Common Lisp at hand, you know… Not exactly clean (in some ways just like C++, by the same token), but stable, mature, standardized, often much faster and much more rich in features.

(with-open-file (stream path)
(let* ((len (file-length stream))
(data (make-string len)))
(read-sequence data stream)))

This should be the fastest way ever. Of course, it’s a shame there isn’t a utility function yet. But then, C++ doesn’t exactly shine wr/t standard libraries, too.

By: Jakub Hegenbart

Jakub Hegenbart — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 10:39:44 +0000

> Three lines? In python:

> data = file(’file.txt’, ‘r’).readLines()

> data is now an array of lines from file.txt

> Anything more complex is just unnecessary…

Even worse, here’s Ruby: >/]]]

a = `cat file.txt`

> I don’t believe that will close the file.
> This has bitten me at least once.

It will. Python uses refcounting and after the refcount drops to zero, the object will automatically close the file.

By: Andrew Bradbury

Andrew Bradbury — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:12:22 +0000

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By: robc

robc — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:16:56 +0000

…until you look out the window and see the sun rising and smell the fresh coffee, then realize you are still at the office.

By: Mark Bernard

Mark Bernard — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:39:34 +0000

You’re not a real Java programmer unless despite all the complaints you still love to program in Java because you know that you can throw something complex together 5-10x faster than most other languages, with all the necessary error checking.

By: Taylor Gautier

Taylor Gautier — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:21:40 +0000

you’re not a real programmer until you can write the code needed to read a url using java.net without looking it up

By: Clifton Santiago

Clifton Santiago — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 20:50:40 +0000

until you make your own pathetic attempt to copy bileblog