It's just plain common sense, try it as a thought experiment: You have a list of numbers representing amounts of some currency, and you need to add 20% to each number as a tax calculation. You have two possible solutions:
1. low-level language, requiring 30 lines of code 2. high-level language, requiring 1 line of code Which of these two solutions is most at risk of you introducing a bug? <http://www.drdobbs.com/article/printableArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=NMUEKNSP4DZ4BQE1GHPSKH4ATMY32JVN?articleId=225701139&dept_url=/open-source/> On 24 October 2010 16:14, Liam Knox <liamjk...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think you are completely nuts. As soon as you start to declare this type > of idiocy about less characters more understandability, expressiveness etc, > etc. Please study Kanji for a few years. > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Kevin Wright > <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> PERL isn't going wrong, it's arguably the single best tool available in >> the extracting-and-reporting domain (the name's a bit of a give-away). If >> you want to push the boundaries of the language then just be thankful that >> you can, and don't go crying to the original designers for failing to coddle >> you enough. >> >> Sure, PERL is prone to obfuscation, it's even easy to abuse. Then again, >> so are machetes, but I haven't seeing the campaigns for blunter knives >> yet... >> >> And yes, there have been several case studies that show the number of bugs >> in a piece of code is basically a fixed percentage of the number of tokens, >> regardless of the language. Fewer tokens = Fewer bugs. >> >> >> >> On 24 October 2010 15:42, Liam Knox <liamjk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Really? You can accurately equate Characters to that ? Where is Perl >>> going Wrong? >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Kevin Wright <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> It equates to 30% less time spent tracking down bugs in code that now >>>> doesn't even exist, and the money paid to the developer who does so. >>>> >>>> On 24 October 2010 15:22, Liam Knox <liamjk...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> what does 30% reductions in characters mean and how does this equate to >>>>> time or money ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Ken Egervari <ken.egerv...@gmail.com >>>>> > wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi guys, >>>>>> >>>>>> I wrote a framework that intends to replace DBUnit. It promises a 30% >>>>>> reduction in the number of characters used compared to dbunit, and >>>>>> mass simplifications and extra features across the board. >>>>>> >>>>>> It's on git. You can read about it there: >>>>>> http://github.com/egervari/scaladbtest >>>>>> >>>>>> I only spent 2 or 3 days on it so far, but all the basic functionality >>>>>> is there and it works with mysql and hsqldb for sure. I even have it >>>>>> working on a real project that has 1093 tests and hundreds of records >>>>>> of test data, so it's field tested ;) It actually runs faster than >>>>>> dbunit too by about 10 seconds :) >>>>>> >>>>>> Enjoy, >>>>>> >>>>>> Ken >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> 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<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>>>> . >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kevin Wright >>>> >>>> mail / gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com >>>> pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright >>>> twitter: @thecoda >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> >>> . >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Kevin Wright >> >> mail / gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com >> pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright >> twitter: @thecoda >> >> -- >> 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<javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. 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