What is an event if not just a simple function? The kind of thing that we have to clumsily emulate with SAM types in Java...
On 2 May 2012 09:30, Fabrizio Giudici <fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it> wrote: > On Tue, 01 May 2012 19:41:57 +0200, Casper Bang <casper.b...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Tuesday, May 1, 2012 6:46:05 PM UTC+2, phil swenson wrote: >> >>> >>> I remember being very disappointed when I first looked at Java for >>> writing desktop UIs. It was a huge step backwards from all the >>> lessons learned from Delphi and VB in the 90s. No properties, no >>> events, layout hell, overly complicated APIs. >>> >>> >> And yet, the hardcore Java developer will defend it vigorously. >> > > This is not true as most Java developers know that Swing is pretty old. > BTW, getting back to the original Phil's statement, apart from the fact > that you can have properties in the language with an annotation processor, > I'd like to know what does he mean with "no events". One of the problems of > Swing is perhaps that there are too many (kinds of) events. > > > -- > Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager > Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." > fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it > http://tidalwave.it - http://fabriziogiudici.it > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscribe@** > googlegroups.com <javaposse%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/** > group/javaposse?hl=en <http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en>. > > -- Kevin Wright mail: kevin.wri...@scalatechnology.com gtalk / msn : kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com quora: http://www.quora.com/Kevin-Wright google+: http://gplus.to/thecoda <kev.lee.wri...@gmail.com> twitter: @thecoda vibe / skype: kev.lee.wright steam: kev_lee_wright "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@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.
