On Sat, Oct 27, 2018 at 2:53 AM Wojciech S. Czarnecki <o...@fairbe.org> wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 10:59:12 -0500 > robert engels <reng...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > > If you head back to the genesis time of Java, > > Can you get all this Java babble out of the **GO** focused list, please! > > In less PC times it was called by its true name: **trolling**. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll > "... to distract and sow discord ... digressive, extraneous, or off-topic > messages > in an online community ... with the intent of ... normalizing tangential > discussion, > whether for the troll's amusement or a specific gain."
Comparison to Java (or any other language) is not off-topic, especially when generics are concerned. I don't agree with some of the things discussed here, but they're still valid and relevant, in my opinion. > > > To this day, you can take a “binary” written for Java 1.0 > This is a plain lie. For anything but "hello world" five-liner. > > > P.S. Guys'n'Gals - please notice that a single person is trashing threads > one after another with Java evangelism and gets some of you infatuated. > > Worse, this (and many others) distracting post reveals lack of real Java > experience. Anyone having real experience with maintaining and deploying > Java "solutions" knows about "Compatibility Guides" and some version to > version incompatibilities that wreaked havoc on maintenance budgets. > > P.S. Fortunately Oracle recently (Sept.25) ignited its plan to kill Java [1]. > They want it being a rotting corpse by the Jan.2020 deadline. > And it augurs well for all Gophers ;) > > [1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html > > > -- > Wojciech S. Czarnecki > << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
