Re: Static vs Dynamic

From: Peter Seibel (peter_at_javamonkey.com)
Date: 10/26/04 

Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 04:14:56 GMT

William Bland <news456@abstractnonsense.com> writes:

> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:15:19 -0700, Darren wrote:
>
>> I am not talking about having to put in casts or more lines of code
>> (generally we all type at 30+ words per minute but only generate
>> 200-500 lines of code a day in any language, point being: brevity !=
>> better)
>
> This is something that really gets on my nerves. People who I work with
> often say they don't mind Java's verbosity because either they don't mind
> doing lots of typing (so go be a typist, not a programmer!), or
> because they can get their IDEs to do the typing for them.
>
> I don't care. The cost is not in the writing. The cost is in
> the reading, the understanding, and the modifying.
>
> Brevity == better!

2 a pt.

-Peter 

-- 
Peter Seibel                                      peter@javamonkey.com
         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp

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