Re: locations of DST information
Re: locations of DST information
- Subject: Re: locations of DST information
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:20:04 -0800
On Jan 28, 2008, at 1:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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.
That is a very good argument for retaining these classes.
Chuck
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