Absolute and complete crap. I have never heard so much nonsense in all my life. You cannot equate pure metrics like number of characters directly to something like 'understandability'. When Microsoft had a concept of this == null. Doesn't take many characters but what the hell does it mean? Here you have a nothing argument
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:35 AM, Kevin Wright <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com>wrote: > Exactly... shorter is safer, compare: > > Assembly - Many lines, almost any error can occur, including a seg fault > and/or memory leak > Old Java - 5 lines, possible off-by-one error > New Java - 4 lines, off-by-one is no longer possible > Haskell - 1 (short) line - also removes the risk of NullPointerException > and ConcurrentModificationException > > > On 24 October 2010 18:16, Josh Berry <tae...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 2010/10/24 Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com>: >> > How about running this thought experiment on two high level languages, >> one >> > which requires 3 lines of code and one which requires 1? >> > The answer is much less clear cut in this case. >> >> You can do the exact same thought experiment completely in Java. >> Which is more likely to get wrong, the for/each loop, or a traditional >> for loop? :) >> >> Does this mean that one is perfect? Of course not. Errors can always >> exist. >> >> -- >> 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. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
