At 12:30 20/12/00 -0500, Joshua Davis wrote: >> As interesting as it is to view the world as a tree of single type nodes, >> when you get into using things for long its inevitable that some sort of >> specialization creeps in somewhere. And its actually quite useful >> at times. >> Genericity is not necessarily your friend. Yes, this is a biased >> opinion -- >> it's based on 3 1/2 years of coding Java at JavaSoft though if that means >> anything. >> > >Genericity leads to the "trying to boil the ocean" problem. ANT is very >vulnerable to this. I would hate to see it devolve into some sort of wierdo >XML scripting language.
Don't be ludicrous. Genericity does not neccesarily lead to flexability syndrome (your "trying to boil the ocean"). Just like specificity does not lead to a rigid jail. Done well genericity works, done poorly it doesn't. Specificty is easier to do but it's not like we lack brain power on ant-dev so ... Cheers, Pete *-----------------------------------------------------* | "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind, | | and proving that there is no need to do so - almost | | everyone gets busy on the proof." | | - John Kenneth Galbraith | *-----------------------------------------------------*
