Re: Windows vs i5/OS as a platform

[DennisRootes@xxxxxxxxxxx]

> > Nope, I'm just tired of you saying how hard Java is.  Java is not hard. 
 If
> > you use JavaScript, you can use Java.  It's just plain silly.

> > So once we're past the idea that more languages are bad, we're back to 
the
> > "Java is too hard" complaint.  However, if you consider JavaScript
> > acceptable, that pretty much removes the Java is too hard argument.

Two things in my opinion.  First, Java is an OO language, it's not quite 
the same as a client-side scripting language.  Sure Javascript has some 
limited OO capabilities now, but there's a huge difference between 
changing the innerhtml property of a <div> and writing a constructor for a 
completely new object.

Secondly, please remember that it's your "opinion" that anyone can learn 
Java if they can learn Javascript.  Java is not hard TO YOU.  There are 
people out there who find Java concepts to be difficult, no, I don't know 
why except that everyone is different.

My personal opinion is that once you've learned ANY programming language 
you can learn any other one because to me they are all the same.  It's 
just a matter of learning which words in the new language equate to your 
normal programming concepts, (i.e. "IF THEN ELSE", "CASE or SWITCH", "FOR 
NEXT LOOP", etc).

Normally I wouldn't chime in, but your whole argument seems to be that 
Java is not hard to learn but you fail to understand that it is simply not 
hard FOR YOU.