Jerry Westrick wrote:
I have extensive experience in programming (COBOL, PL/I, 360 Assembler, C/C++, Smalltalk, Prolog, Perl, Python, just mention a few) and feel it's time I did a little JAVA.
Given that you feel well-versed in both Smalltalk and C++, Java should not present any major hurdle. My own list of languages looks quite similar ( 370/i386/z80/parisc assembler, C/C++, PL/I, REXX, even some APL2 and some HPS). About 5 years ago I also thought I needed to expand my universe (I was doing assembler & C++ on 370), and picked Java as the next stop. So I joined a well known software company selling its own very successful J2EE appl server. I stayed on for about two years, then gave up on Java. It's probably my age showing, but assembler is just a lot more fun :-) /Per Jessen, Zürich