Turns out that Master Xander Reid is also Gourmand Xander Reid. He eats almost anything we put in front of him, unless it is too bland. He shoveled in some spicy caribbean food we made the other night. It was almost too spicy for me, but didn’t seem to even phase Xander. Cheese – especially sharp cheddar and smoked gouda – is a big hit, along with anything containing noodles. He even surprised us by slurping up a stray noodle. We hadn’t taught him how to do that yet. Perhaps it’s just innate.
Xander Update
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Sometimes when I code I end up wishing for features from other languages. I catch myself saying “why can’t I do this in ObjC?” or “This was a good thing in C++, why can’t I do this?”. Not even once have I ran into “I wish this language was more like Java”.
I wish your luck with your new languages. You should add Lua to that list, it’s quite an interesting language. Also add Javascript, for the shear good of knowing it rather than actually use it.
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When I started to be ready to actually write a useful program myself I was worried about it might only work on one platform. If the program had a graphical user interface, then it would probably be tied to Windows. So I learned Swing and so far all my non web applications have been Swing apps.
Java gives you the chance to learn one GUI toolkit and your program will be useful in any platform.
Other options (GTK, QT, wxWidgets) are so much difficult to use.
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