[antlr-interest] Re: Why Java programmers are more productive...

[Paul J. Lucas]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, atripp54321 wrote:

> See <a href="http://jazillian.com/reasons.html">here</a> 
> For about 50 reasons why I think Java programmers are
> more productive than C programmers. Most of the reasons apply
> to C++ too.

	Although I generally loath to enter a language Jihad, many of
	the comments there are disingenuous.  For example, the comment
	"Java has a built-in boolean type" gives an example of how, in
	C, you can accidentally do:

		int x;
		/* ... */
		if ( x = TRUE )		/* oops: meant x == TRUE */
			/* ... */;

	The author "conveniently" fails to point out that you can do
	the exact same thing in Java as the following is perfectly
	legal Java code:

		boolean x;
		// ...
		if ( x = true )		// oops: meant x == true
			/* ... */;

	Besides, it's not like Java invented the Boolean type.

	- Paul



 
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