Lew said:
Of course you don't. Nevermind what you actually wrote, or how you
proceeded to rant about how anyone's career is affected by it.
My point went right over your head, apparently.
I was referring to your unwillingness to learn tools and skills needed for
new environments.
As I've pointed out before, you repeatedly show that you have a bit of a
problem in basing your arguments and criticism on unfounded assumptions.
In this case, how exactly do you go from "I would prefer" to
"unwillingness"?
Your resistance to learning is what is the death knell.
That's a universal requirement for success as a programmer, not just in
Java, and without the commitment to learn and grow, you'll wither and die,
or worse, end up a manager because your programming skills, such as they
are, will utterly cease to be relevant and you won't be able to adapt for
lack of practice.
here you are again with your wild assumptions and making up accusations as
you go along. I'm still not sure if you engage in this sort of behaviour
because you honestly have difficulty reading other people's comments, or
because you choose to intentionally misrepresent what they actually say to
the point where you actually make stuff up to base your criticism.
In this particular case, you are trying to accuse someone who started a
thread to help him learn how to manually set up a build process of...
"unwillingness to learn" and "resistance to learning". This is how much far
off the deep-end you insist in putting yourself.
Bongggg. Bongggg.
I'll take your bet. How much? Every single Java shop where I've worked
since 2000 or 2001 has used Ant, or later, Maven, or both to build Java
applications. Every single Java programmer with whom I've worked in that
time, and every one with whom I've associated in Java Users Groups, has
been at least minimally conversant with Ant.
And what do you deem "significant"? The worst 5% of Java programmers? The
worst 10%? How much to be significant?
I see you felt the need to leave the "no true scotsman" door opened for your
silly argument. You know quite well why you felt the need to set up that
subterfuge.
In every profession there are the virtuosi and the, let's call them barely
competent. Those in the Java world who refuse to learn the standards of
that world doom themselves to the latter category, just as in any
profession. Those who refuse to learn, or take the universal advice (has
any of our experts advised you to ignore Ant and focus on make for Java?)
are hurting themselves and all their clients. Do you really want to be
that guy?
Here you go again, making up accusations as you go along. You can't help
yourself, can you? Far from me to screw up another of your baseless rants
and raves, but where exactly did I said anything about "refusing to learn
the standards"? Nowhere. Once again you felt the need make this stuff up.
It's like you have a hard time dealing with reality and so you feel
compelled to take refuge in your imaginary world, where everything is a
figment of your imagination and the only connections to reality are only
there for your personal convenience, and only when they are convenient.
Once it isn't convenient, you just contradict yourself and proceed as
before.
I've started this thread to try to get some helpful tips from knowledgeable
and experienced people on how to set up an automatic build system that can
be used through a CLI and doesn't depend on an IDE. In the process I've
received quite a few helpful tips, to which I'm grateful. Yet, this
discussion also managed to attract the likes of you, who appear to believe
that it's acceptable to vent your frustrations with your life by repeatedly
assuming a petty and contentious attitude regarding anything at all, and
inthe process wasting your time ranting and raving about accusations you
repeatedly make up from the top of your heads. You, with your anti-social
attitude, your lies and your made-up accusations, are not helping others or
even yourself.
So, if you don't have anything positive or helpful to add to any discussion
then don't. Don't even bother wasting your time writing and posting a
reply. Find another way to vent the frustrations you have with your life.
This newsgroup doesn't need more noise to muffle those who are genuinely
knowledgeable and helpful, and the world doesn't need yet another troll
throwing a tantrum on the internet.
Rui Maciel