Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!69.16.185.16.MISMATCH!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!postnews.google.com!a2g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: lewbloch Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Arithmetic overflow checking Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 26 Message-ID: <08846991-c9ca-4806-9ee1-c90cbdae611f@a2g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <015aeb15-57db-48ab-9cd4-77f8448b632f@w24g2000yqw.googlegroups.com> <2rydnez7l-H5BYnTnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <4e278bec$0$309$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <2gVVp.95931$8G4.3781@newsfe17.iad> NNTP-Posting-Host: 172.19.12.96 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1311259439 9762 127.0.0.1 (21 Jul 2011 14:43:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 14:43:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a2g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=172.19.12.96; posting-account=CP-lKQoAAAAGtB5diOuGlDQk0jIwmH0T User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: ASELCHRU X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/535.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/13.0.782.56 Safari/535.1,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:6343 On Jul 21, 5:50=A0am, David Lamb wrote: > On 20/07/2011 10:25 PM, Henderson wrote: > > > On 20/07/2011 10:16 PM, Arne Vajh=F8j wrote: > >> All Java developers should master at least one language from > >> the Pascal/Modula-2/Ada family. > > >> It gives a different view on many things. > > >> Unfortunately curly bracket languages have almost monopolized > >> the mindset of aspiring programmers. > > > s/those three shitty languages/Lisp and I'll agree with you. :) > > That raises a non-smiley point; if you want to expand programmers' minds > about alternate language possibilities, it seems to me that learning > Prolog (logic programming) and Haskell (functional programming) would do > a lot more than another procedural language. I seem to recall at least > one comment about some XML-related Java package that it was bogus > because it required people to understand functional programming; that > comment made me sad. +1 -- Lew