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No language or platform is going to force me to use stdlib properly and prevent me from doing something badly the hard way.
by erik_seaberg 4y ago
No language or platform is going to force me to use stdlib properly and prevent me from doing something badly the hard way.
- lmm 4y agoSomething that the people hyping Java in its early days would've done well to remember.
- spacemanmatt 4y agoBroadly speaking, the Java argument was to make it easy to do the right thing, not making it impossible to do the wrong thing. Especially when the interface to a filesystem depends on parsing structure from a string.