Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gene Wirchenko Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: can't throw Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 13:23:13 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: <2g1f58t87c8thi7dn5pi0lie9ngdr0jjbu@4ax.com> References: <504fe3a6$0$293$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4NmdnaSmEpADlMvNnZ2dnUVZ7oWdnZ2d@giganews.com> <6s4d58legju3enqvh78ksjdb28mmvrrs5i@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c0a6a1dc41fc92eb7000e57afbd16211"; logging-data="7723"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/GTJ6efL8b/Oos0PcWNquBckCSGulDav0=" X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 Cancel-Lock: sha1:rb03e4lah1bG26VmPXwXcz7+Dmc= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:18813 On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 21:00:12 +0200, Robert Klemme wrote: >On 17.09.2012 18:51, Gene Wirchenko wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:41:11 +0200, Robert Klemme >> wrote: [snip] >> If. >> >> One can drown in huge languages. Features can interact in >> "interesting" ways. > >Yes, of course. But the "if" applies the other way round. As I said: >small or large in itself are no values. Actually, they are. "elegant" refers to simplicity of form accomplishing something. This is a case of "Small is beautiful." And "bloat" is the term we use for the opposite. Given the choice between a large programming language and a small one, all other things equal, I will go for the smaller one. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko