Damn yous java!
I code in java very rarely. There are a couple good reasons for that and an awful lot of bad ones.
The unfortunate side effect of this is that There are about two dozen little things you’ve got to remember in order to get the java compiler to simply function that are tough to track down if you don’t remember what they are.
The one that’s been biting me in the ass for DAYS is that you really need to explicitly specify a jar file itself. Even though the variable in question is classPATH.
Days.
I had this crawling sensation that there was something about this that I couldn’t quite peg, but that I’d been there before.
It took a few rounds of looking at command lines, directory contents and error outputs with an in-house java expert before she said… “wait… where’s the jar name?”
That moment opened the door to the flood of past lives where I’d gone through this exact same exercise, casting down java as being “just fucking stupid, written by retarded tripping monkeys.”
“SHIT!” I exclaimed rather unprofessionally over the phone.
“What’s wrong?”“Nothing, you’re right. That’s it. I’ve been here a dozen times.”
“Well, I’m not guaranteeing that’s the problem.”
“You don’t have to. I will. That’s it. Shitshitshitshitshitshit. I should know better by now.”
So yeah. Days.
- Retarded Tripping Monkey
Tags: java, Programming