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1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2019 19:55:13 EDT musicman
   Send me all your #java language thoughts.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2019 22:27:10 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @musicman I don't really have any #Java language thoughts. In the late #1990s and early #2000s, I enjoyed the courses I took which used Java (and also the courses which used C++, #Perl, #PHP; but I disliked #JavaScript, and really disliked #VBScript and #VB 5 / 6). But especially since taking this job 15 years ago, I've barely touched it.
   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 24-Oct-2020 14:56:25 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @musicman Here's a #Java language thought. In general, many of the complexity and boilerplate issues associated with the language could be worked around, but one issue cannot: The language is owned and controlled by Oracle.
      
      It may be a fruitful field for several more years, but eventually, ORCL will extract every possible drop of profit out of the language and its ecosystem, bankrupting their paying customers and almost everyone else.
      
      Both ASF (Apache Software Foundation) and Eclipse Foundation are in the line of fire and are likely to become casualties.
      1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Oct-2020 15:18:18 EDT musicman

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         The EF worked very closely with Oracle during the Jakarta situation, so I suspect ED is fine
         1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Oct-2020 15:28:40 EDT lnxw48a1

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            @musicman ED? Enterprise Deployment?
            1. musicman (musicman@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 25-Oct-2020 17:07:35 EDT musicman

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               typo. Was supposed to be EF again.