What's with the all of the JOptionPanes?

What is it with people and JOption panes?
I posted this in the "New to Java" since it seems to mostly be newbies that have this strange desire to pop up JOptionPane all over the place.
I get it when there is some large GUI of which some JOptionPanes are a part, but it seems to be that mostly I see them being used as replacements for writing to System.out and reading from System.in.
Are people really being taught JOptionPanes as a reasonable user interface model?
Am I just getting to be too old and cranky to see the obvious benefits of this?

BigDaddyLoveHandles wrote:
johndjr wrote:
Am I just getting to be too old and cranky to see the obvious benefits of this?You're cranky. Can't comment on old.
Yeah, the JOptionPanes are silly. Too many intro exercises end up being mainly about I/O, choosing an action from a menu, asking if they want to do whatever again ... and three lines of code that are related to the point of the exercise. By the way, I am old.You didn't have to agree on the crankiness did you? <g>
When I was in school*, there was the ascii codes, curses or some less general precursor to it was as far a "graphic" interfaces got so the command line just seems to me to be the obvious default way of doing things. I guess if I were starting now I'd probably be throwing up JOption panes all over the place as well.
*Just after the the time when computers were made of wood.

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