On 11 April 2013 02:59, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com> wrote: > In time, programmers will learn to be cautious/paranoid, and 'final' will > dominate your code window. >
Or more realistically, most programmers will continue to be oblivious, and we'll enjoy another eternity of the same old problem where many 3rd party libraries written on a PC are unusable on resource-limited machines, and people like me will waste innumerable more hours re-inventing wheels in-house, because the programmer of a closed-source library either didn't know, or didn't give a shit. None of it would be a problem if he just had to type virtual when he meant it... the action would even assist in invoking conscious thought about whether that's actually what he wants to do, or if there's a better design. </okay, really end rant>
