On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 20:24:19 +0200 Paulo Pinto <pj...@progtools.org> wrote:
> Am 22.07.2012 00:16, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:14:12 +0200 > > "Stuart"<stu...@gmx.com> wrote: > >> Let me just add, I really *like* the terse syntax of D. Lambdas, > >> uniform function call syntax, and so on. > >> > > > > Yea. I used Java in college and ever since then I've been a fan of > > non-verbose systax - ie syntax that's the *opposite* of Java ;) > > > > Actually that verbose sintax "verbose sintax"...Was that deliberate spelling or a very coincidental accident? > is quite helpful when dealing with > gigantic code bases in big corporation projects like where I work. > > The type of "programmer clogs" we have in our projects are so low > skill, that I have bad dreams what they could do in more powerfull > languages. > > Already C# is highly advanced for some of them! > Actually, that may be a good reason NOT to use a training-wheels language like Java - one they finally do *that* much damage, maybe they'll finally get the boot ;) Mwa ha ha ha ha! > What I hate in Java is the abuse of annotations to avoid introducing > new keyworks, like @overload. > Heh, sounds vaguely similar to another language I've heard of...Hmm, what was it called...? Not C...Something after that... ;) I never actually stuck around in Java long enough to see the annotation stuff (though I've heard about it). I think 1.3 or 1.4 was about when I fled.