[Freedombox-discuss] report on activities in Banja Luka

[Rick]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:

> On 11-08-11 at 06:18am, J David Eisenberg wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> > > On 11-08-10 at 06:33am, J David Eisenberg wrote:
> > >> Purely out of curiosity, would you prefer Scala to Java? Same JVM,
> > >> but a more "modern" language.
>
> So even if my arguments for avoiding Java is wrong, correcting my
> knowledge won't change my choices: I am *today* not as comfortable
> packaging or testing Java code as I am with code written in Perl, C,
> C++, Python, Erlang, Haskell, Node or Lua.
>
>
I suspect that if handled properly java could be a bonus.  To me, it seems
like a monolithic approach to system software, more suited to the closed
environment like Windows.  I prefer the modular *UNIX* approach.  Use the
tools you have rather than reinvent, create the missing components and the
glue.


>
> > > Looking forward to your concrete contributions too!
> >
> > I'm more of a documentation kind of guy, so that's probably where
> > you'll see me doing stuff.
>

You're probably more valuable than a coder.  (coder here)


>
> Great!  I recognize being lousy at that myself, so really excited that
> some care explicitly for that area!
>
>
>  - Jonas
>
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