Was trying to remember when I first poked around with coding in Java and realized...
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Was trying to remember when I first poked around with coding in Java and realized... ugh...
it was back when the first edition of O'Reilly's "Java in a Nutshell" came out in 1996 (!) - "Java in a Nutshell is a complete quick-reference guide to Java, the hot new programming language from Sun Microsystems."
I have this book around here somewhere. I remember using it for a couple projects in my senior year of college
(hot new programming language )
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Let me tell you, writing a networked multiplayer game of Pong in Java with a real GUI without drowning in Visual C++ was pretty dang cool
The project after that was an IRC client, because I was pathologically online even then
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@lmorchard and then in 2003 you did me a big favor by converting an unstable Java Daemon service to Python, which we spent many years maintaining and growing.....
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/LivingIndependently -
@billseitz @lmorchard messing about with a notepad clone in Java Swing in 1999 on a slightly busted 486DX, then implementing & actually being able to use same with Perl/Tk, is what got me committed to Perl for the next 15+ years.
Honestly that was it between me and Java until last year when I got into Minecraft.