Whereas what I'd actually rather do is 1) write a book about vernacular aesthetics (art & working class) 2) teach Shakespeare or Donne 3) teach almost any fucking thing except technical writing.
I'm 57. I still have this fantasy that when my kids sort themselves out....another four or five years please God!, I will be able to stop this madness and somehow (in my dreams) find a teaching job to supplement retirement income.
But, yes, I grant you 1 and 2.
Joanna
----- Original Message ----- From: "Fernando Cassia" <fcassia at gmail.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 7:19:42 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Another computer great passes: John McCarthy RIP
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 14:01, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> the only thing I hate worse than Java is XML.
> Joanna
The beauty of Java is that is not ONLY a language, it´s three things:
1. A runtime environment 2. A software ecosystem 3. A language.
:)
So you can use 1. and 2. without having to write a line of Java if you don´t like it. There´s plenty of languages that run on top of the Java virtual machine: JRuby, xRuby, Jython, NetRexx...
Even Lisp and Cobol if you want.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
There´s a yearly summit about new languages ported to the JVM... http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/
H*ck, you can even write Visual Basic syntax and get it compiled to Java bytecode with Jabaco. www.jabaco.org.
FC
-- "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." Richard Hamming - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code
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