[coding] The Best Punching Bags are Made of Straw Men

I've been accused of hating my "own kind" by various people.  In my defense...its completely true.  At the moment, the group of people I'd like to bitch about are Java programmers, who, based on useless answers I've been reading on Stack Overflow, are ostensibly obsessed with trying to make Java a non-turing-complete language.  Let me try to describe, with an analogy, the kind of frustration I'm dealing with at the moment:


Me:  "I'm trying to build a calculator, but when I run a Servlet inside [thing1] on [thing2], the 'Add' feature doesnt work."

Enterprise Java Dev:  "Well, what numbers to do you want to add?"

Me:  "Well I was gonna start with 5 and 8, but-"

Enterprise Java Dev:  "No problem!  Just edit your spring configuration--Spring is way better than Jetty because it has more xml--and add this:

<resources>
  <resource>
    <directory>${basedir}/src/main/resources/META-INF</directory>
    <includes>
      <include><add name="fivePlusEight"><operand which="left" type="five"><operand which=right type="nine"></include>
    </includes>
    <targetPath>${project.build.directory}/dependency</targetPath>
  </resource> 
</resources>

...and that way you don't have to write any code!"

Me:  "mother fucking cuntbag"