Nick Sabalausky wrote:
"Jeremie Pelletier" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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Justin Johansson wrote:
For the interest of newsgroups readers, I dropped in at the Cafe the
other day and
the barista had this to say
http://cafe.elharo.com/programming/imagine-theres-no-null/
Disclaimer: YMMV
Cheers
-- Justin Johansson
Most of the bugs he expose are trivial to debug and mostly come from
beginners.
From the article:
"The distinction between primitive and object types is a relic of days
when 40 MHz was considered a fast CPU"
I so disagree with that on so many levels. That's exactly what I believe
is wrong with programmers today, they excuse their sloppy programming and
lazy debugging with safe constructs which have way more overhead than is
actually needed. It doesn't really make the program easier to code but the
programmer less careful, leading to new kind of bugs.
Maybe for financial or medical domains its acceptable since speed is not
an issue, but I expect my $3k computer to not slow down to a crawl because
its software is written in a "safe" way and I like people with older
computers to still be able to run my programs without waiting 5 minutes
between any two mouse clicks.
Holy crap, I feel like I have a clone ;)
(Hopefully that was original enough to rationalize a blatant "me too" post
;) )
It certainly was, thanks :)
