On Dec 8, 1:57 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > It's like roads really. We still lay down surfaces for them, and sit in > something with wheels and a source of locomotion.
Yes indeed, a pickup truck is basically a better horse and cart in the same way that Scala is a better Fortran. Programming by having a programmer "manually" defining what needs to be done to each piece of data is a bit like requireing all transport to go by road. (At the risk of hammering the analogy into the ground) there are alternatives to roads that can take you to places that roads cannot (e.g. ships, planes and rockets) but little indication that the same can be done in computing (i.e. the possibility of creating software at a level of abstraction where the developer isn't writing stuff like "let x = 1" or "var x = 1" or whatever the latest language's variation is.). -- 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.
