Thursday Sanity Check: What Do You Hear
Listen carefully:
Female voice: 1.5 or 6
Q: Did your mind go: "Java 5 or Java 6"? "1.5 or 1.6"? "1.5 or 6.0"?
Q: 1.6 and 6 are really the same thing, right?
Re: Thursday Sanity Check: What Do You Hear
Yes.
I found myself explaining Java versions to some folk the other day and found it much easier to just refer them to the nicely done Wikipedia page on <a >Java version history.
When Sun first started using 5.0 instead of 1.5, it struck me very similar to the time in the late nineties when they switched the Solaris version from 2.7 to Solaris 7. My understanding is that the Sun engineers continued with 2.7, 2.8, and so on, whilst the marketing folk used the Solaris 7, 8, and so on.
Back in the Java world, when I listen carefully, it sounds like more of the same.
I found myself explaining Java versions to some folk the other day and found it much easier to just refer them to the nicely done Wikipedia page on <a >Java version history.
When Sun first started using 5.0 instead of 1.5, it struck me very similar to the time in the late nineties when they switched the Solaris version from 2.7 to Solaris 7. My understanding is that the Sun engineers continued with 2.7, 2.8, and so on, whilst the marketing folk used the Solaris 7, 8, and so on.
Back in the Java world, when I listen carefully, it sounds like more of the same.