Personally, I have decided that I will work on a job I don’t enjoy only if there is no other way to keep myself fed. Writing Java would definitely qualify as a job I don’t enjoy. If I were in your position, I wouldn’t just drop out, but I’d float my resumé.

As for the messy syntax thread – so what? There are ways to be explicit about what you want, so perl doesn’t need to guess (and so can’t fail to get it right). And if Java has such simple and regular syntax that it doesn’t get confused, what does that really mean? The core language does so little that you need a positively byzantine standard library. Have you seen the quirks in that? Complexity always comes out somewhere.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re: Should I stay with this company or leave? by Aristotle
in thread Should I stay with this company or leave? by Anonymous Monk

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