On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 14:43:11 UTC, Chris wrote:
On Friday, 22 November 2013 at 14:11:50 UTC, bearophile wrote:
Chris wrote:
E.g. one day D might implement features that have to do with
what Facebook needs more than features that programmers need
in general. So a module std.webshite.upload.latest.picture
gets all the attention while std.reallyhandy is being
neglected.
Do you know one or two cases where this phenomenon has
happened to a language?
Bye,
bearophile
Good question! To be honest I cannot put my finger on any
module of any language in particular. Maybe Objective-C would
be an example where sometimes things would advance at breakneck
pace in Cocoa, while some handy features in the standard
Objective-C library (e.g. in NSString) would still be missing
(but that's years ago now, I haven't used it for a while, so I
dunno how it has developed).
Java is a good example of how (corporate) ideology (and
management) ruins things. Everything is a class, if you don't
want this, you create a class and declare static functions to
turn off OOP.
You know that this comes from the original concept of what OOP is
all about and Smalltalk, right?
There are no free functions in pure OO languages, like there are
no objects in pure FP languages.
Of course, meanwhile we have learned there are other ways to do
OO, but don't blame Java for Smalltalk concepts.
--
Paulo
