Re: Beginner's questions
Re: Beginner's questions
- Subject: Re: Beginner's questions
- From: "John C. Randolph" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 07:28:16 -0700
On Tuesday, October 16, 2001, at 06:30 AM, Georg Tuparev wrote:
Well, speaking about packages, this is one of the very few things I
would like to see in ObjC. But speaking about Java packages, they are
useless IMHO, because of the lack of support for versions. I remember
when the Java was still in stage of white papers and pre-alpha
releases, I asked Mr. James Gosling why the packages does not support
versions. He told me that if you carefully design your interface you
will never change it (only extend it), and therefor you do not need
packages (at that time they had no depreciation switch for javac ;-) I
told him he is naive. He never replayed. I still think he is naive...
The man has fallen into the popularity trap: he's convinced that
because Java is so popular, it's good. Try talking to him about
categories sometime.
-jcr
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with
a terrible resolve." -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Dec 7, 1941.