On 8 December 2010 09:42, Vince O'Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Dec 8, 12:28 am, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote: > > I guess I must be one of them. Virtually every Apache project I commit on > uses it. > > Yes, it sounds like you are one of the minority. Credit Suisse > applications and Appache applications are at opposite ends of the > spectrum in the way they use Java. CS focus is on financial > accountancy and the software is only there to assist in that goal. > Appache, on the other hand, is all about the software. It seems > reasonable to me that different rules apply. > > Everyone here does realise that we're getting dangerously close to the old "dynamic vs static typing" religious war, right? Regardless of your perspective on that debate; I think it's fair to say that an organisation who's primary business role is to pump around serious amounts of money would be interested in the added safety and verification that a static type system offers, and really wouldn't look kindly on any attempts to subvert that extra security. At least if you simply use a library that itself uses reflection then you don't take the full blame if something goes wrong (many banks really are all about managing blame), you can also be quite sure that reflective code in a common library would have more users able to spot bugs than anything you write in-house. -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- 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.
