Re: troubling article/C question for you old guys ;-)
Re: troubling article/C question for you old guys ;-)
- Subject: Re: troubling article/C question for you old guys ;-)
- From: Barry Wilson <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:32:51 -0700
On Wednesday, June 11, 2003, at 04:21 AM, Jay Vaughan wrote:
I think the point (which seems lost in the neverending Conflict of
Dogma so many programmers seem unable to resolve these days in their
Quests for Authority)
Judging from your other posts here I almost wonder if that statement is
autobiographical.
That's not *my* 'typical' development environment. (vi + make, if you
want to know.)
I think on this particular list the "typical" environment is Project
Builder, no? Also is there something BAD about RAD? I thought Cocoa
development was kind of rad too.
I think its a little more appropriate than sending him an inflamed
opinion on his nature of being...
And yet this is exactly what you have done to John Randolph in your
comments on the "C question" thread. Your last line in *that* post is
revealing...
(Why yes, having written a few millions of lines of C code in my life,
I *am* a C Zealot. Thanks very much for noticing ... and sorry for
clogging cocoa-dev with my boring rhetoric.)
If we were discussing pre-processor macros are they not a part of C?
Maybe C Zealots are just supposed to be ashamed of the pre-processor
because of past abuses? In any case we aren't really talking about C
are we? We are talking about Objective-C. In particular Obj-C with
Cocoa, which has already adopted a very readable style of method
invocation. Why not a readable test for equality? I don't think that is
grounds for calling someone's engineering skills into doubt.
Don't be proud of how many millions of lines of code you've written. BE
proud of writing one succinct line of code where others might have
written ten, or removing lines of code without sacrificing function. BE
proud of making projects tighter, more maintainable, readable, more
robust and less error-prone. Those are engineering skills.
By the way, I could care less whether everyone agrees with me or not. I
am not on a Quest For Authority. I enjoy seeing the diversity of
opinion on the list except when someone goes a little too far. So keep
posting your comments, but lay off the other guys.
Barry Wilson
"I'd search for a good by-line but I've already got a life, thanks."
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