Bryan Sant wrote:
On 2/16/07, Shane Hathaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Java culture stops me. When I write Java code, I am a member of the
Java community and must behave as one, even if I disagree with some of
the practices.
You do understand your civil rights correct? You don't *have* to do
anything. I highly doubt that if you created a new class and named a
method to_a instead of toArray, that the Java community Secret Service
would come a break your legs. There are widely accepted (and good)
standards in the Java world, but the compiler isn't forcing that on
you. If you like short names, use short names.
Nope. If I want to work where I'm working, I will use existing Java
conventions. If I want to use more flexible conventions, I will have to
work somewhere else.
Anyway, I'm glad you're looking into other languages. Personally, after
spending a lot of time writing C++ and Java, it took me a long time to
understand the value of what other languages had to offer. On the
surface, different languages simply offer different feature sets, but I
see now that there's a lot more to it. Each language makes you think in
a different way, and frequently the manner of thinking matters more than
the features. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to express a manner of
thinking, so you can only experience it for yourself.
Shane
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