On 02/10/2009 16:16, Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
Justin Johansson wrote:
For the interest of newsgroups readers, I dropped in at the Cafe the
other day and
the barista had this to say
http://cafe.elharo.com/programming/imagine-theres-no-null/
Disclaimer: YMMV
Cheers
-- Justin Johansson
Most of the bugs he expose are trivial to debug and mostly come from
beginners.
From the article:
"The distinction between primitive and object types is a relic of days
when 40 MHz was considered a fast CPU"
I so disagree with that on so many levels. That's exactly what I believe
is wrong with programmers today, they excuse their sloppy programming
and lazy debugging with safe constructs which have way more overhead
than is actually needed. It doesn't really make the program easier to
code but the programmer less careful, leading to new kind of bugs.
Maybe for financial or medical domains its acceptable since speed is not
an issue, but I expect my $3k computer to not slow down to a crawl
because its software is written in a "safe" way and I like people with
older computers to still be able to run my programs without waiting 5
minutes between any two mouse clicks.
all I can say is: Thank God I'm an atheist.
it seems you do not want to hear a different opinion despite the fact
that option types exist in FP for half a century already and provide the
correct semantics for nullable types.
with your logic we should remove seat-belts from cars since it makes for
less careful drivers.
