On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: >> > A Perl enthusiast who's written three blog posts in two years says he >> > doesn't like a new language and we should pay attention because...? >> > Anyway, even if I focus on the message and not the messenger, I can't >> > say I >> > see a lot of value in this post, why did you find it noticeable? >> >> Don't know why, but I found how you managed to turn an admission of an >> ad hom into an insult rather amusing. :) > > Er... wha? > Rereading what I wrote, I see fact, fact, a question and a personal opinion. > Where do you see any attack?!?
I guess it is that I did not see the transition from an ad hom tone in the first part where you were belittling perl and the blogger, to no tone where you asked why the person found this interesting. You even called out how you were making a direct ad hom attack, which seems to signal that you were acknowledging the negative tone of the beginning. Moving past that, though, and getting back on topic. Having only false as false does seem odd. Especially with no way to coerce other items into false. This is especially true in a system that will not flag a compile error when you put something in that isn't going to work, ever. Amusing that they went unsound to allow some stuff with generics, but then open up comparable holes elsewhere in the system. Same goes for the string conversion for concatenation, but no other conversions, evidently. Seems a comparable mistake to the one made in java. I would imagine it will be just as annoying there, as well. -- 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.
