Re: Static vs Dynamic

From: Marco Antoniotti (marcoxa_at_cs.nyu.edu)
Date: 11/03/04 

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:50:34 -0500

Pascal Costanza wrote:
>
> Darren wrote:
>
>> Come on, you are quibbling.
>
>
> No, I am not.
>
>> Will your next complaint be that I didn't implement all known
>> operating systems as objects and therefore it will break if moved to
>> a Mac box or an AS/400?
>
>
> No, my next complaint will be the same as before: Your code is not
> object-oriented. I still think it's a hack. Recall that I've said that
> hacks aren't necessarily bad ideas, so I wonder what you are currently
> fighting against.
>
> The paper I have referred to is an illustration of OO principles and of
> the fact that using inheritance and design patterns doesn't make you an
> OO programmer. That's the only thing I am interested in here.
>
> If I were really, really, really concerned about finding out about the
> operating system my program is running on, I would check the *features*
> list. ;)

Which gives me a very nice handle for self-aggrandizing selfish
advertisment: check out the CL-ENVIRONMENT library in the CLOCC :)

Cheers 

--
Marco
> 
> To stress this the last time: _This is not the topic of our discussion._
> 
> The topic is: What does static typing, especially Java's type system,
> bring to the table? That's where we started from.
> 
>> It's obvious to me you don't do real programming and probably
>> couldn't see the value of such a thing in a real system.
> 
> 
> I have insulted you, now you have insulted me. Can we call it quits?
> 
>>> The trend I see is that you are only correcting bugs when someone 
>>> points them out to you.
>>
>>
>> Ya, I have better things to do with my time then turn a toy example 
>> into production quality code, especially when you keep changing the 
>> parameters by which the code is judged.
> 
> 
> I have never changed them.
> 
> 
> 
> Pascal
>

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