[1353] in java-interest
Re: "perform:" and Java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Mitchell)
Wed Aug 30 19:53:57 1995
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 13:59:35 -0700
From: "John D. Mitchell" <johnm@emf2-003.emf.net>
To: Tako Schotanus <Tako.Schotanus@bouw.tno.nl>
Cc: "Charles L. Perkins" <clp@home.HarvardSq.com>, java-interest@java.sun.com
In-Reply-To: <9508301539.AA25904@hermes.bouw.tno.nl>
Tako Schotanus writes:
[...]
> If nobody can come up with some serious reasons why *not* to implement it,
This attitude scares me whitless (just like senior citizen drivers :-).
Just because something sounds neat and useful doesn't mean that it's a good
idea to add to a language. This attitude is what has brought C++ to the
horribly obnoxious state that it is today.
What happened to the lovely concepts that were beaten into us in school?
Don't criteria like 'necessary & sufficient' and 'orthogonality' mean
anything to people anymore?
Can't we get some reasonable discussion as to the pros/benefits and
cons/costs involved in adding/changing [insert topic here] without
devolving into mindless 'religious' wars and knee-jerk reactionism?
Thanks,
John
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