By the way: This is one of the things that's a problem with systems (like lisp and smalltalk) where the development environment is part of the program under development, rather than a separate toolset which treats the target code as pure data.

Modifying the environment itself can be a major hassle. And it breaks isolation when developing something intended to stand alone, dragging in a lot of unrelated code.

'cause if you knock it offline by accident, your easiest tool with which to bring it back online is gone?

Ditto with the online manuals for the virtualizer.

This problem was described in 1961, in a short story by Hal Draper titled: MS Fnd in a Lbry.

Kind of like how it's a bad idea to mess with a host's eth0 settings if you're currently logged in via ssh through eth0.

Or putting a breakpoint in the debugger's breakpoint handling routine. Or single-stepping into the debugger.

I said long term.
Oracle has developers the develop in a lot of things besides Java.
How many of them used API's from outside Oracle?
How many of them reused trivial code?

And Java will be fine

"Java goes into a slow eclipse."--I see what you did there.

wrong. Most government projects are on or below budget. Most are highly detailed in the specs.

It's nice you can spout off about something you know nothing about and continue to keep those old myths moving along.

jerk.

It only seems that way because you are pretty clueless about the scope of the project.

How do you run two emergency systems side by side? 911 systems include call center, lines, vehicular communication, radio frequency, every emergence personnel, training, data housing, real time access backing up.
And only about 4500 other things.

911 systems are highly entrenched, custom systems.

"...only government contracts that do this regularly"
this is completely false.

"I wonder, has anyone ever seen a post-mortem review of a government contract?"
I have, many times.

" Does government ever even attempt to figure out where the inefficiencies lie and correct them or at least plan for them next round?"
'the government" well, we don't have a single governments, so that's not a useful term.
The agencies who I have audited and reviewed certainly did that.

Now some facts:
The vast majority(90%+) of government contracts are done on time, and on cost.
Agencies of the government, as well as state governments have far less waste then corporate entities.
80% of corporate projects fail.
Both those are verifiable with a trip to the library to get the government records. Good luck, it will take weeks to sift through them. The code I wrote to do it is proprietary, otherwise I would get you a copy of it and the data.

Never forget two things when talking about corporate and government projects:
Corporations have a PR dept, and can keep their books to themselves. The control the channel. SO when something is great, you here about it, when it fails you never hear about it, when it's a blunder, it is quickly changed.

Government agencies have poepl one the outside alway trying to look in, even when they don't have the knowledge to evaluate what they see, the media only shows you failures, never success.

SO peoples perception is skewed greatly.
This is also why I cringe whenever some puts 'business leader' as a qualification for an elected position.
Well, one of the reason.

I sued to have the same perception, until I got involved with auditing varies large entities, public and private sectors.
Man, after that I got a lot more confidence in out government, as a whole.
I have pointed out multimillion dollar descrepencies to corporate CEOs, and they found it 'interesting' but didn't care too much.

More governments need to nail those bastard that over charge and don't meet spec. Too many people are afraid they will look bad, so the force a bad system out and don't take recourse.

Portlands former Mayor Katz come screaming to mind.

Long term speaking, its a win for Oracle. It's really only a matter of time before it would have bit them in the butt. There developers use APIs as well.

Things for you to do:
1) Go outside
2) walk to the nearest store
3) by a humor detector.

Half = almost now.

Good to know.