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Re^2: Runtime introspection: What good is it?

by chromatic (Archbishop)
on Jul 07, 2008 at 05:49 UTC ( [id://695916]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Runtime introspection: What good is it?
in thread Runtime introspection: What good is it?

Why the static OO guys seem to think runtime inspection, "duck typing" and meta programming is something newfangled and scary is beyond me.

Java dragged C++ kicking and screaming to the easy half of Lisp, circa 1972.

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Re^3: Runtime introspection: What good is it?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Jul 07, 2008 at 05:53 UTC

    Now that should someday be a chapter's introductory quote in a programming book yet to be written.

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