-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 dsimcha wrote: > == Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article >> dsimcha wrote: >>> Sometimes I feel like there should be a law similar to Greenspun's Law for > > Having never done it before, I really cannot imagine how people get any work > done > in a language that doesn't have either duck typing or good templates. It's > just > too rigid. It seems like modern statically typed languages like Java and C# > end > up adding tons of ad-hoc workarounds for lacking either of these as > well-integrated language features. The best/worst example is auto-boxing.
Which is why the .NET framework is so bloody huge. If MS hadn't provided that out of the box in the first version, .NET would have been a dead duck. - -- My enormous talent is exceeded only by my outrageous laziness. http://www.ssTk.co.uk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFLET3kT9LetA9XoXwRAlROAKCWpHYX+yZ9CJllO2D+n1TkE5YBIQCeJSnQ BJOhQbYK/ur4ugDwcXbCVVI= =JQlY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
