>>> ah, children from the 90's...
>>
>> I wish. :-P
>
> ok, old fart.

Thanks for making me feel better. :-P

>> Seriously. Visual Studio manages to be responsive enough, and not eat
>> half my RAM. NetBeans can't. IMHO, that makes NetBeans inferior.
>
> Windows comes with the .NET libraries used by VS. It's also a native
> program, rather than one running on a VM.

You know, people say "oh, Java isn't slow". And then this happens...

Also, about this "Windows comes with the .NET libraries". If that's so, 
then why did I have to wait 20 minutes for it to download .NET when I 
installed it?

>>> snippet 1:
>>>
>>> ((.)$(.))
>>
>> ASCII art? ;-)
>
> actually, I thought it was some perl idiom. :)

The question is, who the heck writes code like that anyway? (Except to 
show off.)

> if it was a bit more concise, it'd give you a nice pair of boobies:

Hey, that's what it looked like in the first place. But rich boobies. ;-)

>> In fact, the "$" is necessary. Either way, this takes a 3-argument
>> function, the first argument to the function, a function that
>> transforms some type into the type of the second argument, and a
>> suitable argument to transform. Or, in symbols,
>>
>> (x -> y -> z) -> x -> (j -> y) -> y -> z
>
> haha, you already new that from the haskellwiki. :p

Erm, no... It's a simple question of type inference. I mean, c'mon, it's 
not exactly a complicated code fragment. It's two function calls.

>> That's not even parsable. (Indentation is significant, remember?)
>
> ah, seems indentation is lost (too bad for haskell). But nice style on
> giving up.

Well, yeah, because even if I could understand it, that wouldn't prove 
anything to anyone.

>>>> Yes, Java /still/ sucks. :-P
>>>
>>> Yes and that is a feature by design.
>>
>> O RLY?
>
> Yes, so that your hired slaves can't cut the pulses and get free.

Wuh?

>> Ha! If only... They don't say "write once, test everywhere" for
>> nothing. ;-)
>
> seems like most of the thousands of open-source java libs are well
> tested already.

Wait - there are open-source Java libs now?

(Last time I looked at Java, all anyone ever used it for was pointless 
Tic-Tac-Toe applets. Nobody ever wrote actual large applications with 
it, just small toy examples.)

>>> BTW, Ant is yet another example of XML-madness: it's basically a verbose
>>> XML makefile for java.
>>
>> Oh well. At least you don't need tab characters. :-P
>
> says the haskell programmer... :p

What? Tab characters are explicitly disallowed in Haskell. :-P

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