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Firstly, I'm one of the most connected people I know and I hardly knew people still existed in the flesh.

They don't.

Judging from all the security holes in Microsoft products, I suspect this is more representative of the war room at Microsoft.

This Parking Lot is Full comic seems quite appropreate given the subject matter.

For those who haven't seen it before, The Parking Lot is Full is a classic work of black humor.

This Parking Lot is Full comic seems quite appropreate given the subject matter.

For those who haven't seen it before, The Parking Lot is Full is a classic work of black humor.

Just use the Chicken language

This still isn't the truth. The truth is JFK was killed by bears from space.

Could be, could be...

This Parking Lot is Full strip, perhaps?

.. You can afford strange hobbies.

Just goes to show that this comic was way ahead of its time...

http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc273.gif

I think that's taken already. :)

I am sad to report that the chicken article [pdf] has been classified as inauthentic. But maybe the program just doesn't understand papers written in Chicken [gif].

http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc134.gif

"It's Goofy Time!"

No, dad! No!

Goofy was always the sinister one, in my opinion.

Right. I see where this is going; right here.

http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc083.gif

Oh man, I love PLIF. I gotta say, though, this one's my favorite.

Not to mention funny:

http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc123.gif

But it is funny

Reminded me of an old comic from the now-defunct The Parking Lot is Full webcomic. (Mirrored here since the original site is acting sluggish.)

Reminded me of an old comic from the now-defunct The Parking Lot is Full webcomic. (Mirrored here since the original site is acting sluggish.)

... to post this link:

http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc263.gif

Probably...

Alternatively, we could learn Chicken.

(link is to a plain, Safe For Work GIF - just in case the hosting server regards that link as being a leech-type deeplink you might need to copy+paste the URL)

http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc198.gif

http://plif.andkon.com/archive/wc229.gif

Andkon should be proud of it.

Or just rewrite your filenames in Chicken.

Welcome to Planet America

Is java really worth developing for? I think it is great for its ease of programming and library support, but it's requirement of running on virtual machines leads to huge memory requirements for the simplest programs, and GC while nice, can lead to slow apps.

I would not recommend Java for small programs. But my company sells a scientific application that is written in Java. It handles large amounts of data and applies clustering algorithms that are computationally intensive. Compared with the sheer amounts of work that our own code is doing, the VM overhead is hardly noticeable. Our customer base is evenly split between academia and the pharmaceutical industry. Almost a third of our installs are on the Mac, and there's a few percent who are using Linux. The rest are running Windows.

Our leading competitor sells a Windows-only product. We have three times as much market share.

Why would anyone want to write a serious "enterprise" application in Java vs. say C++??

Because C++ sucks.

andkon tells off bjarne