-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 12/6/10 13:50 , John Smith wrote:
My anecdotal experience is that developers much prefer the .NET/Java approach in this regard, but I'm not aware of a formal survey.
Agreeed. Put more concretely, developers strongly prefer that ugly warts in the language be *fixed*, even at the expense of backward compatibility. Java, in particular, breaks things because a sufficient number of developers have asked that backward compatibility be discarded in favor of fixes. Also agreed that popularity is indeed *the* point. The developers are your customers; ignoring your customers' requests, in general, is a BAD thing. - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkz9XF4ACgkQIn7hlCsL25WdZgCgpMSwTDiBBTMZG8HxuEgWG7D+ HzoAoJkYrNpjLx3ycfnFKx06obhUJg5v =5Q5h -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----