I spend a good portion of my day wishing the Omniscient Debugger was usable (yes, I forked it on github, looked at it, did nothing at all on it and then deleted my fork) so that I could easily see where a value originated.
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:32 AM, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Good point Miroslav, the bulk of our day is spent getting Maven to > behave, dissecting Spring stacktraces etc. - and that is a BIG > different from what programmers dealt with a decade ago. However > having said that, recent language evolution caters to internal/ > embedded DSL friendliness to try and bridge that. I.e. LINQ is a > pretty darn nice way to be able to write type-safe queries as first > class constructs in the language, with all the support an IDE can give > you. So I think language vs. API is going to keep blurring. > > On Sep 30, 3:20 am, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]> > wrote: >> There is too much trivial opinion and not enough solid real meaningful >> facts. I dont understand why people love a certain language so much and >> forget that we spend more time working with libraries therefore they are the >> most significant aspect of our work. Having the best most >> expressive/powerful language is great but a small factor when one considers >> the effort required to work with libraries. I find poor documentation or >> crappy exception messages more of a worry than the first class constructs of >> a language. > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
