[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Scott Dorsey]

Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>I did spend a year and change programming in Java.  The language
>itself isn't terrible, though verbose.  However, it does seem to
>be attached to what one might call a culture of excessive
>abstraction.  It sure seemed like an excessive amount of code is
>dedicated to various kinds of machinery plugging in providers,
>adapters, and all sorts of GoF design patterns, without actually
>doing much of anything.  :-/  "At what point do we actually add
>these two numbers together?" "Oh, you just implement this
>interface and create a factory that plugs into this DI framework
>and that code is generated for you."

I am sorry to report that although this issue (which I refer to as
the Library Disease) is rampant among Java "programmers" it is just
as severe among python "programmers" and increasingly becoming an
issue with C++ "programmers."

I have had people tell me that sorting was much faster in Java
because it could be done in one line whereas it took many lines
of C code.  The degree to which this exposes fundamental misunderstandings
about computing amazes me.
--scott

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