At about ten pm on December 31st last year, mstevens and I came to an agreement. We would get Java certification in the next six months, to see what the hype is all about. We'd been talking about it a lot on list and it seemed like a good idea. Of course then we consumed a lot to drink, set off fireworks, congaed through the neighboring houses and did all the other things one traditional does at new years. And then I forgot about it.
I love programming in Perl, but I'm not bigoted enough to think that there might not be something I can learn from another language. And I used to be a pretty good Java programmer - I've just got a bit rusty of late. So certification seems like a good idea all round.
So mstevens reminds me of this fact, six months and 11 days later and actually was organised enough to give me a number to call in order to get a voucher that I can use to book a test. All I need to do now is brush up on a bit of terminology and remember how to deal with a strict typed language again ;-)
I'll be sure to let you know how it goes.
Why can members of london.pm never understand a calendar?
It's only five months and 11 days
Re:london.pm vs the Calendar
2shortplanks on 2002-06-11T15:33:11
Hey, I learnt from the best davorg.
There's ALWAYS something you can learn from another language. There's a lot to learn from Java on many levels (language adoption, marketing tactics, "enterprise grade" software development platforms and toolkits, etc.). There's also a lot to learn from where the Java development team learned from: various versions of C and C++, Smalltalk, various LISPs, FORTH, and so on. That's certainly the less practical direction to approach, but possibly more fruitful.there might not be something I can learn from another language.
