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2000/1/7-10 [Computer/SW/Languages/Java] UID:17185 Activity:nil

1/6     In Java, I can declare huge static string (e.g. static String
        mesg[][] = { {"error1", "Disk error"}, {"hello", "Welcome!"} }.
        How do I do the equivalent in Java Hash table?
        \_ The hard way, i.e. manually adding things in.  Java ain't perl.
        \_ Java is dead.  XML is in.
                \_ Spoken like someone who understands neither.
                        \_ Spoken like a Java fanatic who doesn't understand
                           that the pace of technology has destroyed Java
                           before it ever took off.  Bye Java.  Nice to almost
                           know you.
                                \_ No, just someone who knows the difference
                                   between a programming language and a
                                   document formatting language.  XML is very
                                   cool & useful, but has nothing to do with
                                   writing programs.
                                   \_ No one is going to pay big bucks for last
                                      year's Java coders once XML is in.  It
                                      has nothing to do with writing programs
                                      or document markup.  It has to do with
                                      cold hard cash and the Java folks are
                                      soon to be out.  You're all wrapped up in
                                      the technology.
                \_ Ah, but writing XML parsers in Java is *very* in...
                   a possible motivation for the above post.
                        \_ Doesn't matter what you use to do your XML.
                   \_ EXPAT! EXPAT! EXPAT IS THE STANDARD!  XML parser.
               \_ almost everything you now use employs Java in some fashion,
                  technopeasant.  Java is still very in.  See also "enterprise"
                  Java.         -javaHead
                  \_ Don't be stupid.  Almost everything I now use employs C
                     and some small shred employs C++.  For every line of
                     production Java in the world there's about 300 million
                     in C and 10 million in C++.
              \_ You're dead. Homo sapiens is in.

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