RE: [FormProc-developer] Re: Why FormProc? Was RE: [ANN] JPublish 0.8 Released

[Brad C. <bc...@vi...>]

At 9:07 PM -0500 2/16/02, Anthony Eden wrote:
>I suppose I just have a different opinion.  I believe that it is best to
>maintain mutability for the purpose of being more flexible as systems
>change.  The less I have to compile, the better.

Yeah, reasonable minds can differ there. I've been on both sides over 
the years. Objective-C for example, ADDED dynamic typing to C of all 
things.

But as a programmer, I don't object to compiling at all and 
experience with jakarta projects makes me equate mutablility with 
flexibility... as when pushing a rope.

That's exactly why jwaa deals with entire websites statically. It was 
driving me nuts keeping all the stray bits straight with jsp and 
before that, perl.

The whole flesibility argument has given me an abiding dislike for 
configuration "languages" as a solution to mutability/flesibility. 
There's a whole rant on this in one of the jwaa articles. Compile it 
with jikes and you get sensible error messages. Botch a configuration 
file and you get to debug exceptions from code you may not even have 
source for.
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