I'm Don Denoncourt, and I'm a Java evangelist. I spent 10 years in the world of business applications design using
RPG and COBOL. One day, I began to wonder if there was more to programming than structured applications. I bid farewell to friends and family and moved 1,500 miles to be a systems programmer at ASNA. There I began a journey of enlightenment as the masters of ASNA taught me the tenets of object-oriented programming with C++. I learned that although structured techniques had served AS/400 programmers well, there was a better way. After five years, I was ready to come down off the mountaintop and preach the gospel of object-oriented programming. But C++ was a language for computer scientists, not business applications programmers. I needed a language that was not as complex and error-prone as C++ and yet was purely object-oriented.
The company called Sun delivered that language to me in the form of Java. The way is object-oriented programming; the language of the way is Java.
Midrange Computing saw fit to give me access to a powerful media to spread my Java evangelism -- as a senior technical editor for
Midrange Computing. There, it was my job to help MC readers prepare themselves for a future that involves the bandwidth
of the Internet and the language and platform of Java. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
