Re: locations of DST information
Re: locations of DST information
- Subject: Re: locations of DST information
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:00:21 -0500
To voice an argument that has not yet
been raised in favor of not deprecating the NS formatter and making it
a true wrapper around the Sun formatter...
WebObjects is all about the framework.
I could care less that it currently runs on Java. I liked it better when
it was Objective-C but I really was happy about the change in 2000 and
didn't fight it. The potential of doing Java Webstart apps was just so
compelling, SOAP, and other things.
Now what about in 2010 when the language
of the year happens to be C+- (... that's "C more or less").
That's not a real language, as far as I know, but we all know that things
change over time and we might want to move the WO framework to a different
development platform.
Wouldn't it be nice if the formatting
strings you used for the "WO framework" never had to change?.
I'm saying whether they be hard coded or loaded at runtime from properties
files or database attributes, it doesn't matter. The framework is what
matters.
I mean, c'mon. Why don't you just deprecate
mutable and immutable Arrays, dicts, etc. Java sort of has those data structures
too. Why duplicate the code? .... see what I mean? Where do you draw the
line? When are we supposed to remember to use the NeXTSTEP class and when
to use some Java or lang du jour class?
WO, as a framework, is what matters.
The language it runs on is just a vessel.
-- Aaron _______________________________________________
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