On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:24:17 -0700, "Bryan Sant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > As far as java being verbose, it's about on par with object-oriented > C++ code. You'll never have a type-safe language that's as compact as > a dynamic language because you're always declaring types. It's a > trade-off. However, with a modern IDE, the task is trival. And you > make up any time that may have been lost (I don't believe that any is > with an IDE), by avoiding many runtime errors that the compiler finds > for you.
Victor Laszlo had a good post on this: http://secretartofscience.com/blog/?p=23 "It seems obvious to me that the strict typing basically catches errors in code that you only have to write because of the strict typing." -Jonathan -- C++ is history repeated as tragedy. Java is history repeated as farce. --Scott McKay /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
