I tend to think that the features of a programming language itself is often overrated. I mean, who cares about about a particular thing you can solve in 1 line of code in Scala (or whatever) instead of using 3 or 5 in Java. Basically, all work I need more than 5 lines of code for it, gets a a subroutine in my "personal" library that I link to each project.
What really makes sense is using libraries like iText or IcePDF or whatever instead of doing that all by hand. By changing technology to an incompatible level (e.g. changing from Cobol to Java) you have a lot of work re-implementing a whole lot of stuff. I think, Vince meant that programs with approximately the same size and scope still need about the same time to develop, no matter which language you are using. And I tend to agree. Sure, if you have 3rd party libraries you can use then is better, but this applies to whatever language you are using. -- Martin Wildam -- 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.
