Re: Cannot find symbol java error (newbie question)

On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:38:34 -0700, Taria <mchew02@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

I'm sorry I offended you, Andrew.
Andrew thinks he is Gregory House/Sherlock Holmes and that his acidic
style is entertaining. He was hired by Microsoft to haze newbies in
an attempt to derail Java by frightening off potential programmers.

He wishes he were a computer. Like the child on StarTrek NG who
developed a serious case of hero worship on Data, he likes to
fantasize he is an android by posturing as absurdly literal, this
simulates rigorous objectivity. He imagines computers are that way,
and that is what makes them superior life forms.

He is a bit of a nutter, but if you ignore his mild anally retentive
Tourette's tics' he can be a useful tutor.

I know another person like him who lives in Somerset in England. If
you read a transcript of the things he said you would imagine him foul
mouthed and mean. But if you hear him live, you hear the merry laugh.
It is his way of being jocular. c.f. the word "shut up" in black
slang.
see http://mindprod.com/ggloss/shutup.html
--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary
http://mindprod.com
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