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Blame the 90s : the Gang of Four design patterns book, UML, et al. If you wrote code that did not abstract enough, such as not using factories, it was jaw-drop
by vijucat 12y ago
Blame the 90s : the Gang of Four design patterns book, UML, et al.
If you wrote code that did not abstract enough, such as not using factories, it was jaw-droppingly obvious to your colleagues that you were not good enough. FP and Scala owe the sheer verbosity of Java a lot for their current success :-)
- pjmlp 12y agoTargeted at C++ and Smalltalk developers.
- tormeh 12y agoGod. UML.
- cam- 12y agoJava has been round long enough to have been influenced by whatever was the coding fashion of the time. You can see it in the core java libraries and the supporting frameworks. OO and GoF where probably the biggest fashions and you can document when a core library was written by the approach to it.