On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Craig Latta <craig@netjam.org> wrote:
Hi--
Actually, I am fine with the prefixes. Objective-C also works like that and well, it hasn't exactly hampered its community to scale.
I think Objective-C might have had one or two other forces behind it to compensate. :)
Sure. But not when it was at NeXT.
I have done my share of Java and yeah, sure, there are a lot of enterprise grade things in there. So many that actual development and delivery usually slows down to a crawl with lots of Java priests who confuse delivery of business value with technical show off.
For me this stuff isn't about being "enterprise-grade" or even particularly sophisticated. It's rudimentary, like bothering to remember where your car is parked. The lack of it is something that causes potential participants I meet to stop listening, especially given the power of the system in general. It's a strange discontinuity.
Looks like this thing as been discusses ad libitum in the past... I actually like this one: http://swiki.krampe.se/gohu/32 Looks like no nonsense and not forcing anything down people throats. Phil
-C
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