Who's minister of propaganda this week?
Phlip
phlip_cpp at my-deja.com
Wed Mar 14 09:08:54 EST 2001
Proclaimed Cameron Laird from the mountaintops:
> Sure; Bruce "Mr. Java" Eckel says Python's his favorite language.
> That was last week's news. What would you think if the former
> editor of the *C++ report* gave his
> prediction for this decade: Keep an
> eye on languages like Python, Ruby,
> and Smalltalk. They are likely to
> become extremely important.
Robert C. Martin meant two things. A> If you write wall-to-wall unit tests
when you code, if you use a typeless language you will add bullet-proof
features faster than if you use a statically typed language, even though
the former has less built-in error checking at type conversion time. The
latter supports refactoring easier.
B> The full depth of behaviors we should expect from a typeless language
have yet to be fathomed. Ruby trumps Python in the simple matter of
closures (imagine my shock when I discovered Python didn't have them). But
a language "like" those might win the decade.
> I heard you wiseacres in the back there, with the, "But Python
> and Smalltalk *already* are extremely important" comment.
Many pointy-haired bosses are unaware of the former, and think
the latter is some academic curiosity. That's why selling Java (a
statically typed language) to these bosses was so easy.
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