On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 04:02:02PM -0500, Stephen Haberman wrote: > I went through a phase of wanting a concise/magical syntax, but realized > the same thing: in most hands, the code will end up looking more like > Perl than Java.
That's not a bad thing. Take English. You probably read it fairly well. Now, take Standard English[1]. All of a sudden, that short, descriptive paragraph becomes two or three times as long. Call a spade a spade, not a wooden-metal hybrid gardening implement. -Dom [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_English --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
