On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 20:24:21 UTC, Ramon wrote:
@Timon Gehr
Here I'd tend to disagree. Code duplication is the compiler's
job.
I get your point but I disagree.
No I disagree :)
There has been several months, or more, of research going into
reusable code. Languages include things like functions, modules,
and even classes to help produce code which can be shared across
many applications. Some languages research polymorphic data to
provide generics. To suggest that a language isn't needed to
handle code duplication because an IDE can duplicate it for you
is absurd.
I don't frown on copy-paste code because "it's the thing to do"
or because it causes more typing. copy-paste is bad because your
logic is now duplicated and requires twice (on a good day) the
updates. To have the IDE do this still has the core problem. One
could create a syntax for the IDE to expand the code before
compilation allowing for a single location of logic... but now
you've just invented a non-standard macro language that could
have just been dealt with in the compiler.
