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code reuse?

by doom (Deacon)
on May 03, 2007 at 18:55 UTC ( [id://613454]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Interesting read: "Why I use perl and still hate dynamic language weenies too"

The article under discussion Why I can use perl and hate dynamic language weenies, too is commentary on Invasion of the Dynamic Language Weenies, which in turn is (in-part) commentary on the article What's Wrong With Ruby?, which was written by Matthew Huntbach, a Lecturer in Computer Science at Queen Mary, University of London.

Some of Huntbach's commentary about the current state of Java caught my eye:

However, these days when I look at the Java section in the bookshop, there is little I understand. There are huge numbers of add-on libraries, each of which has its justification but which have been developed on a learning curve and so haven’t got it quite right. Even the core APIs are bloated, since backwards compatibility means one cannot throw away one’s first solution to a problem once it has become an integral part of the language, even if developing and using it has led to a better solution. It seems to be inevitable that once a language becomes widely used as a general purpose language, it is pushed in directions it isn’t suited to, builds up unnecessary complexity through accretions, and the urge to throw it away and start again becomes stronger. A bit like any large software system which has served its time.

I'm getting to the point where I find things like this screamingly funny...

Use JAVA! It will save costs by encouraging code reuse!

Now let's throw that code away and re-write it all in the next language that will encourage code-reuse.

And using an out-dated language like perl is obviously pointless (it's more fun to re-write everything from scratch than download a solution from CPAN).

(I sometimes wonder how "Computer Scientists" call themselves "Scientists" with a straight face...)

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