Fantastic article. Very well rounded. I particularly liked "Meanwhile the Smalltalk programmers were scratching their heads wondering what the big deal was. You see, their language was also strongly typed; but their types were undeclared. In Smalltalk types were enforced at runtime."
and..."You see, the Smalltalk programmers had solved the missile problem in their own unique way. They invented a discipline. Today we call that discipline: Test Driven Development. ... You see, when a Java programmer gets used to TDD, they start asking themselves a very important question: “Why am I wasting time satisfying the type constraints of Java when my unit tests are already checking everything?” cheers -ben On Tue, May 9, 2017 at 2:49 PM, askoh <as...@askoh.com> wrote: > This is a quote from Bob Martin of "Clean Code" fame. Enjoy, Aik-Siong Koh > > http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2016/05/01/TypeWars.html > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://forum.world.st/ > Smalltalkers-will-eventually-win-So-says-this-old-C- > programmer-tp4945895.html > Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
