Le 25/09/2010 16:54, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit :
On Saturday 25 September 2010, my mailbox was graced by a missive
from Farfouille<[email protected]> who wrote:
If one compare a C/Gobject program with its equivalent in Vala, it is
obvious that it will have fewer bugs in Vala version, just because there
less lines of code hence less places where bugs can hide.
This argument does not hold water. I used to program in APL, progs were
usually very short (a complex prog had less than a few dozen lines), and could
be full of bugs.
Cheers,
Ron.
Please don't compare APL with the languages aforementioned.
Quote from Wikipedia about APL :
"Because of its condensed nature and non-standard characters, APL has
sometimes been termed a "write-only language
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-only_language>", and reading an APL
program can at first feel like decoding Egyptian hieroglyphics
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphics>. Because of the
unusual character set <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_set>, many
programmers use special keyboards
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_keyboard> with APL keytops for
authoring APL code."
My argument is about C/Gobject and Vala not about any languages. Vala
has been developed with the goal of easing Glib programming. That's why
the comparison of program length makes sense.
Cheers,
Farfouille.
