On Saturday, 26 January 2013 at 08:29:40 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky
wrote:
Automated tooling is admitting a defeat if we talk about
expressive languages. Java was designed with automatic code
manipulation in mind and even with todays proliferation of
generators it's a pain to work with.
TL;DR code is written once and read many times.
Using tooling is admitting defeat ? That is very misplaced pride
(and not even an argument).
And if you think that verbose code is less readable, think twice,
or follow both links :
http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js
http://code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js
No doubt the less verbose one is more readable !
