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smegel
·il y a 10 ans·discuss
What do you think about 4GLs - do you think they still hold any promise and/or represent a solution to today's language woes?
smegel
·il y a 11 ans·discuss
> What era are you from, again?

Uh, the one following hordes of brain-dead Java developers hand-coding getters and setters?

> Also, those "brain dead" Java developers still write code that smoke your dog slow Python code regardless of how meticulously you hand crafted your code.

And is delivered 2 years later, requires 5 times more people and costs 10 time more to develop. And Python can be plenty fast if you use the right libraries.

> So yeah, I would be bitter too.

What do I have to be bitter about? I get paid well to write Python, C and Go on bespoke and interesting back-end systems and don't have to attend daily stand-ups with brain-dead Java developers and Oracle DBAs and listen to them duke it out over who's fault it is queries are running slow. No thanks.
smegel
·il y a 11 ans·discuss
You don't seem to understand what "abstraction" means in computer science. Hint: it's nothing to do with memory management. High level languages like Python/Ruby actually have less abstractions than lower level languages like Java because they don't need them, and Python/Ruby programmers tend to want to get stuff done rather than write a ode to the Gang of 4 in XML.
smegel
·il y a 11 ans·discuss
Well if I asked your average brain-dead Java developer it would be to make your code more "generic" so you don't have to change a single line of code when requirements change, just tweak some XML somewhere!

And if there is one thing that Java developers are not, it is productive. I will usually be finishing off a project in Python while they are still coding getters/setters on their AbstractProxyFactoryFactory class.
smegel
·il y a 11 ans·discuss
> and took half as much time to develop

Abstractions make coding faster now?