On 30 Mar 2005 15:07:48 -0800, "Ian"  wrote:

>I became a father. One of each now.

Congrats, mate. Glad to hear it went smoothly. Having a kid is a big
thing.

>True to form, my daughter watches faces. He watches things.
>
>He was born in 45 minutes from a standing start, and Alan Milburn
>failed to murder him like his femicentric spending plans did my father.
>One day mate.
>
>Anyway, I plan for him to be a weapon of mass destruction of feminists.
>Unlike soldier murderer, Tony Bliar, I can provide the evidence.

Keep your son away from the super madheads.
Looks like his name's not going to be Alan or Tony.

>Also, I'm learning Java. I have to say that I've yet to see anything so
>brilliant in it that overcomes the 6 years of theft and evolution that
>is the .net framework.
>
>There are a couple of things going for it, namely that it runs on
>anything, and you can see the code that the compiler gives you.
>
>It's pig slow compared to vb.net, or c# though, pound for pound.

I've used both extensively. My vote, if only slightly, is for Java.
Can write you a web server in 8 lines of code, host it on any machine
with a fixed IP address, as you get when you use broadband. Can write
you an entire internet-based chat room in about a page of code.
Java's far, far more robust than .Net. And far more straightforward.
And safer-nearly all of the pitfalls have been taken out of it, which
is why they stole it and copied it as c#.

These languages are converging. For IDEs, .NET has Visual Studio; Java
has Eclipse, very similar (and plug-ins for drag-and-drop GUI design).
The main difference is in the pre-built libraries, and even there,
they're converging. Not much you can do in one that you can't do in
another. And the syntax of c# is very close to Java where it counts.

Anyway, congrats on the boy.
Here's wishing him a long and happy life.


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