On May 9, 2012, at 3:08 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> If it's verbosity that is alarming, you could certainly write that C# in
> a much more terse way. But then again Python's a higher-level language.
Terseness isn't a virtue; if it were, then we'd all be writing in Perl.
It's the plethora of useless repetition, such as having to declare the
"get/set" for every member. The fact that most developers don't actually write
all that, but instead rely on a tool to generate it, shows that the language
itself is not elegant. It also creates a reliance on the tool in order to code
efficiently. Once you have been able to write powerful code with just a text
editor, you find yourself with an aversion to tool dependency. It's like being
able to run on your own, and then having to rely on a wheelchair to get around.
-- Ed Leafe
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