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Re: matching tasks to languages, was Writing A Plain English Compiler

From Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>
Newsgroups comp.compilers
Subject Re: matching tasks to languages, was Writing A Plain English Compiler
Date 2014-11-10 15:37 -0800
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On Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:23:06 -0500, George Neuner
<gneuner2@comcast.net> wrote:

[snip]

>I frequently am amazed at the contortions Java programmers go through
>to solve problems within the restrictive OO model.  IMO, "Design
>Patterns" was an admission that too many programmers couldn't use Java
>to solve routine programming problems.

     I bounced off "Design Patterns" myself.  It seemed that the
authors would rather do anything but simply instantiate an object.

     I had a uni assignment that I tried to solve using OO.  As I
worked my way around it, I realised that OO was not going to happen.
Oh, I could have done it, but the code would have been much longer and
quite difficult to validate/debug.

>[That's as much an indictment of the lack of CS education among
>programmers.  Java - somewhat successfully - tried to pander to less
>educated programmers by making simple things simpler, but in doing so
>it made solving many real problems more complicated.]

     I lost a few hours to this on another assignment, because ints
could not be unsigned.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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