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Being a recovering C++ programmer who wrote some very clever code while younger and very dumb code while older, if you think Java gets out of your way perhaps y
by wheaties 13y ago
Being a recovering C++ programmer who wrote some very clever code while younger and very dumb code while older, if you think Java gets out of your way perhaps you should try Scala or Clojure. Talk about getting out of the way, these LAn guages are something of a wonderment. Every day I get to code in them is a good day. It's true, you won't have the "power" of C++ but if you need that there's C.
- thebear 13y agoAuthor of blog post here: I haven't found the time to do much with Scala or Clojure, but my impression so far agrees with what you say. Thanks for reminding me: I need to seriously try out Scala and Clojure!
- bnolsen 13y agoI've seen some programmers get fancy and try to overengineer what they are doing. It's the temptation of premature optimization. They just need to be forced into doing some maintenance and refactoring work for a while to realize how much fancy code really sucks.