[ajug-members] Explain the Method Header in more detail

[Michael Campbell]

I agree.

While this question does seem a bit basic, one has to remember that there
are new people coming on to the list all the time.  It isn't practical to
desire that any question that has already been asked on the list is
verboten from being asked again.  All "mature" mailing lists have this
problem; they are useful for people to learn from, to a point.  Then,
because one has been on it for a long while, they become rehashing the same
things over again and again.  But what's "old and rehashed" to the old guys
is new to the new guys; it's solely a matter of length of tenure.  Consider
lists for C; does anyone honestly think questions there can possibly cover
any new ground?

Once a list hits a certain maturity, there will be people rolling off that
have been on it for awhile, because the subject matter simply doesn't have
that much "new" stuff to keep them occupied, and they don't want to keep
seeing the same questions from the influx of new people.  And some will
stay, because even though it's not new to them, they like to help.  And the
new people will eventually graduate to BE those old people who stay... or
go.

It's just the nature of mailing lists, and particularly mature ones.


On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Brian Alexander Lee <brian.a.lee at gmail.com
> wrote:

> I actually like these questions. Since ajug mail archives are googlable
> people will see this question for all eternity. This helps in the future
> for screening job candidates.
>
> BAL
>
> On Nov 17, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Igor Tovstopyat-Nelip <igor.tn at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Are you serious? You are asking a question to the language group without
> making an effort to figure out what is the very first letter of the
> alphabet is? How about opening a 101 book at least once? And, isn't this
> trivially googlable as well?
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 1:55 AM, TAC2010 <tac2010 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> To my fellow AJUGS,
>>
>> Can you explain in a better detail the  Main () Method Header:
>>
>> *public static void main(String [] args)*
>>
>> *public *= the modifier that can be viewed and accessed by other
>> classes. Main (method) must use the                       "public" accessor
>> so the run-time system can call it.
>> *static *= a method that does not use instance attributes or methods. It
>> only uses parameters , local variable,              and static constants,
>> and other static methods in the same class.
>> *void* = the data return-type of the method. It does not return any
>> values; it is not empty though
>> *main* = What is this??????
>> *String [] *= an array of strings
>> *args* = Arguments
>>
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