The glib answer would be the mere question of "other" in a Java users
group. Isn't Java the only real language used in our industry? C# is
just a Java copy, arriving late to the party, and not realizing it was
black tie.
There are no other languages to my knowledge, but to ask the question
another way, who have you talked to lately, that is discussing the
issues of exception types, that is not a java programmer?
My thought was that the problem exists within the Java community
alone, and then is also addressed in conversations about whether we
should use alternative languages.
The predominant source of experience is rooted in Java. A progressive
movement explores dynamic typing solutions like Ruby, and questions,
the use of any restrictive constructs in general.
So, from a high level, cross language perspective, it seems to hold
true that the programming world falls into the same two camps as our
political debates. Restrictive or liberal? Controlled or loose?
Traditional or progressive? The one truth or the devils spawn? The
oppressors or the freedom fighters?
I am not suggesting that Republicans like strongly typed languages,
just that there are lots of common characteristics between those that
do and those that don't.
Remember, there is no politics in programming, only wry observation.
On 10/28/06, Jim Weirich <jim.weirich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry to revisit an old thread, but I got very behind on email recently and
found this thread interesting.
On 10/17/06, Edward Sumerfield < esumerfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> [...] You will tend to find that people that like strongly
> typed languages also like checked exceptions, [...]
What other strongly typed languages support checked exceptions. I thought
Java was alone in this experiment.
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