Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing (big advantage or not)---WAS: c.programming: OOP and memory management

From: Jeff Brooks (jeff_brooks_at_nospam.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 22:20:10 GMT

Jörn W. Janneck wrote:

>>People who know more programming languages do have more informed views
>>on programming languages.
>
> so it's right then, you do say that smalltalk developers are smarter, and we
> need to pay more attention to someone's opinion simply because that person
> identifies him- or herself as "smalltalker"?

I didn't say that.

>>I didn't say the programming in java wasn't an improvement over c++. I
>>said that Java was adopted because of hype.
>
> so okay, let's hypothesize that java *was*, in fact, an improvement over
> c++. all we can see is that java *was*, in fact, adopted by a large
> community. now you say that the *reason* why these people adopted java is
> *not* the fact that it is an improvement over c++, it is "because of hype".
> do i understand you correctly here?

You said: "So you are saying that the adoption of java did not improve
the current state of software development (in those areas where it was
adopted) wrt where it was in 1995?"

I responded: "I didn't say the programming in java wasn't an improvement
over c++. I said that Java was adopted because of hype."

Now your twisting my words around from things you claimed I said but I
was only responding saying I didn't say it!

> so according to you, even *if* people's adoption of java could be explained
> by a rational choice, you somehow postulate that it wasn't. hm...

I didn't say that.

>>VHS has quality settings for recording as well but its high quality
>>setting is worse then betas high quality setting.
>
> are you saying that beta was not lagging vhs in recording time?

I didn't say that.

>>I'm just saying popularity doesn't define quality. This is true in
>>almost every single industry there is.
>
> you must have misunderstood me if you think i disagree with that statement.

??!! Then why are you arguing about it?

Jeff Brooks

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