On Sat, 23 Sep 2017, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote:
On 2017-09-21 04:06, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus wrote:
Nah... most of them know nothing about true OOP.
They believe that an object is a "record" with getters and setters...
anyway.
If I understand you correctly... referring to Java developers, then that
is a totally wrong generalisation.
As you said, each his own style. What is more important is keeping
this excellent community united, around that great language called
Object Pascal.
I love Object Pascal too, and have a real soft spot for it (and always
will). But G*D damn, Java is brilliant too. Not just Java the language,
but the millions of frameworks and tools built around it too (JPA,
Spring Boot, Jenkins, Maven etc). Also the understated Java Annotations
are unbelievably powerful and can (and does) reduce the amount of
boilerplate code tremendously(*).
FPC doesn't even cover the most basic of things - no decent debugger
that can handle all the Object Pascal language features. :-/
Of course not. FPC is not a debugger, it is a compiler.
But if you put the combined resources of IBM and Oracle at our disposal,
we'll quickly catch up.
* Take a gander at how much Java Annotations reduced boiler plate code
using JPA in EJB 3.0 and later vs EJB 2.1 which didn't use
annotations.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100731223045/http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javaee/jpa-137156.html
That's actually a step backwards.
Because it breaks the separation of object and storage.
Good for some quick and dirty prototyping, but a potential disaster in the long
run.
It suffices that the DBA decides to move (part of) the data for storage, and
you're dead...
I have to manage an API where the same data can meanwhile come from 1 to 4
different
kinds of databases, depending on some (for all practical purposes) random parameter.
Luckily, at the start I separated storage and object.
Michael.
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