A classic retort. You hardly need to (and hardly did) read the comment, just a textual match on 'other languages' and a standard response about 'the real world'. Is this automated? :)
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> > Introducing a new keyword is always very, very dangerous and has the >> > potential to break a lot of code (witness what happened with assert), so >> any >> > language designer worth their salt will always avoid doing so unless >> there >> > is really no other way. >> >> Of course, other languages worth their salt actually solves the >> problem and moves the art forward with techniques such as context- >> sensitive keywords and deferred tiered resolving. >> > > Such languages haven't had a lot of penetration in the industrial world, I > wonder why :-) > > -- > Cédric > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.