you were out of the 'entry level' arena long before Java became a defacto standard in it, for example.
Oh, sure. I mean, I started doing really hard-core Java programming back in, what?, I guess 1996. (During the Netscape/IE 3 generation.) At the time, I was writing what may well have been the most sophisticated applet in the world: a self-installing, self-modifying, cross-browser multimedia client applet for an educational MUD we were building for the DoD. Fun stuff, and at the time it *was* quite cutting-edge -- indeed, the idea of an object-heavy language like Java was still controversial, and there was a lot of resistance to the idea that you could do "real" work in it. But that was a while ago now...
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Date: 2008-03-17 01:15 am (UTC)you were out of the 'entry level' arena long before Java became a defacto standard in it, for example.
Oh, sure. I mean, I started doing really hard-core Java programming back in, what?, I guess 1996. (During the Netscape/IE 3 generation.) At the time, I was writing what may well have been the most sophisticated applet in the world: a self-installing, self-modifying, cross-browser multimedia client applet for an educational MUD we were building for the DoD. Fun stuff, and at the time it *was* quite cutting-edge -- indeed, the idea of an object-heavy language like Java was still controversial, and there was a lot of resistance to the idea that you could do "real" work in it. But that was a while ago now...