Sun sucks ass (the gathering which will not be called a fest)

Begin: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 03:16

Submitted: Wednesday, April 28, 1999 04:00

I have had it. The JDK is a worthless piece of shit. I give up. At least IBM knows how to write a compiler. Unfortunately, without a working runtime environment, even wonderfully compiled bytecode won't execute. I tried it on a glibc 2.1 system, a platform with many known incompatibilities, as the Blackdown team admits. So I try it on Defiant, which is still on libc 5. It compiles there, but the runtime environment will not work with anything that used AWT. I have tried everything. Pouring over the READMEs and docs. It simply will not work. Ugggh.

What is disappointing is that Java is such a promising language, with so many cool and elegant features. It's just a shame their implementation is so pathetically buggy and proprietary. Seems the two go hand in hand. Too bad.

I officially concede this project. At least for tonight. What a shame. Tomorrow, at which time it is due, I will be dead tired. It just sucks to stay up late like this and get absolutely nothing done.

And what did we learn class? That's right. Never trust stupid companies, like Sun. I'm sorry. I really don't hate Sun all that much. It's just so frustrating. I'll get over it.

Now that I've ranted, it's time to relax and enjoy the late-night-early-morning brain vapor. Despite the annoyances with Java, this has been a relatively enjoyable evening. Neelix, Jaeger, Bryan, and myself gathered in ph409 doing our projects (or attempting, in my case) and playing Magic. Actually, Bryan continuously plays Magic, and the rest of us take turns challenging him. It's quite enjoyable. The environment is almost fest-like, but it is officially known as "the gathering which will not be called a fest", because of the fact that we are doing school work, which true festing precludes.

The prospect of losing out on a good third of my grade in Java class does not appeal. I'll probably just have to conduct my project on one of the crappy Windoze-based microlab machines and turn it in late. So much for the cross-platform vision. :(

So here I sit, singing my heart out to the "Something to Remember" album (currently on "This Used To Be My Playground"), drowning my disappointment in the classic music. Bryan has now left the building, and Neelix, Jaeger and I are rapidly degenerating into nonsensical looniness.

I think I better hit submit before this gets completely ridiculous. Besides, I'd rather sing than type.