On 05/09/2012 07:04 AM, Ed Leafe wrote:
> On May 9, 2012, at 3:08 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
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>> If it's verbosity that is alarming, you could certainly write that C# in
>> a much more terse way. But then again Python's a higher-level language.
> Terseness isn't a virtue; if it were, then we'd all be writing in Perl.
Notable Quote:
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Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly...
-- Larry Wall in <[email protected]>
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Regards,
LelandJ
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> It's the plethora of useless repetition, such as having to declare the
> "get/set" for every member. The fact that most developers don't actually
> write all that, but instead rely on a tool to generate it, shows that the
> language itself is not elegant. It also creates a reliance on the tool in
> order to code efficiently. Once you have been able to write powerful code
> with just a text editor, you find yourself with an aversion to tool
> dependency. It's like being able to run on your own, and then having to rely
> on a wheelchair to get around.
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> -- Ed Leafe
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