on Thursday, April 30, 2009
...but not in the way this article seems to think the phrase means. Did anybody really think that by saying "Good programmers are lazy" we meant "showing a lack of effort or care", or "characterized by lack of effort or activity"? Come on: it's a humorous expression with enough truth in it to take seriously.When people say that "good programmers are lazy" it means that good programmers try to
on Thursday, April 23, 2009
In a recent DZone comment thread somebody stated:[...] Java did great in pushing design-by-contract [...]This caught me off-guard; I've never heard anybody refer to Java as a DbC language before. The rationale provided was that Java was the first general-purpose language to push interfaces--but interfaces are probably the weakest form of DbC I can think of. (We'll ignore that Eiffel predates Java
on Monday, April 20, 2009
The JavaRanch is a site for "Java greenhorns" (although it caters to quite advanced users as well). As such sometimes things are posted there that make even relatively new Java programmers cringe.A recent post in the Struts forum asked a question about frames, which ends up being the least of the problems. The code snippet posted looked like this, spacing preserved: