From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Q: type ... is new String
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 08:54:16 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2012-06-04T08:54:16-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b1dc5051-94ea-4e72-9719-46540af3e9b9@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jqi6qb$oms$1@dont-email.me>
On Monday, June 4, 2012 6:39:56 AM UTC-5, Brian Drummond wrote:
> Now, we can debate the relative merits of "is new String" versus "is new
> Array <> of Character" but how do we get the message out there that
> recognized industry experts (and I'm not quoting "expert" because I
> believe he is, in his field) are recommending "Real Solutions" that
> impose weeks of painful and unnecessary work on unsuspecting programmers
> for ... what purpose? what gain?
Well, if we assume that programmers have an inherent zero-sum masochistic sense then this makes perfect sense. A programmer will then choose the language which "hurts" in the ways most acceptable to him: B&D language vs. B&D lifestyle.
We of the former must obviously have low tolerance for pain-duration (we want the compiler to catch the most errors and berate us at compile-time) whereas the others enjoy long drawn-out pains (especially when some intermittent error somewhere absolutely needs fixed and you have to spend days debugging the program to find out what's going on).
I think more people are attracted to the latter because "debugging isn't fun", "isn't fun" -> "work" therefore debugging is work. (And thus the more debugging they do the more sense of accomplishment for their work they feel.)
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2012-05-30 16:33 Q: type ... is new String tmoran
2012-05-30 17:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-05-31 7:37 ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-06-04 5:58 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 6:30 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-04 7:48 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 8:03 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-04 8:14 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 9:09 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-04 10:35 ` J-P. Rosen
2012-06-04 5:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 11:39 ` Brian Drummond
2012-06-04 13:36 ` Maciej Sobczak
2012-06-04 14:58 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-04 15:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-04 16:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-04 17:05 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-04 20:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 20:56 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-05 7:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-05 8:40 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-05 9:06 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-05 12:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-05 13:14 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-06-06 4:09 ` Shark8
2012-06-06 8:52 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-06 23:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-07 11:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-06 23:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-04 20:33 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 21:27 ` Georg Bauhaus
[not found] ` <m9kqs7hgii13e220b1phm46n43d92tu1pj@invalid.netcom.com>
2012-06-05 6:15 ` Georg Bauhaus
2012-06-05 6:36 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-06 4:14 ` Shark8
2012-06-07 0:01 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-06-07 0:20 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-06-05 12:05 ` Brian Drummond
2012-06-05 14:43 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-06-04 15:54 ` Shark8 [this message]
2012-06-04 22:01 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-06-05 12:10 ` Brian Drummond
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