Reply to: permie java developers

[aussielong]

I've nearly just fallen off my chair... the permie java developer next to me has just come up with this gem.

maybe what he is getting at is that instead of implementing polymorphism using reflection you could write code like this:

if type = X then do this
else
if type = Y then do this
else
if type = Z then do this

[TimberWolf]

I've nearly just fallen off my chair... the permie java developer next to me has just come up with this gem.

I've nearly just fallen off my chair... the permie java developer next to me has just come up with this gem.

to be honest they [Sun] could have just got round this reflection stuff by just using if statements

He is right. Today's programmers probably think OOP and newer methodologies are somehow more computationally powerful than older or simpler statements like an IF. They aren't, modern programming methods exist only for the convenience of programmers. They don't add any computational power. Every program ever written and could ever be written could be rewritten entirely in IF statements.

[Xenophon]

pedant

[Sysman]

petard

pedant

[Xenophon]

Ha, hoisted by your own whatsit!

petard

[voodooflux]

Ha, hoisted by your own whatsit!

Ouch - sounds painful

[moorfield]

Another classic quote from the other day when I was trying to explain the benefits of running a build server/cruise control (after having a few instances of going back and forth asking developers for missing files) "In the past on some projects we haven't used any source control and just put our files on a central machine, could this save us some time?"

Oh yes. Said permie java developer also believes that ..

I'm not too worried about source control because we have it all on the shared drive and that's backed up on the network each night.

[DimPrawn]

I've got that book.

I haven't read it though.

There's nothing about FORTRAN IV in it.

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[Churchill]

I've got that book.

I haven't read it though.

There's nothing about FORTRAN IV in it.

How do you know if you haven't read it?

Ha, hoisted by your own whatsit!

[DimPrawn]

Reflection? Classes? Objects?

Pah, all you need is Loop, If and Gosub + Return

[bobhope]

Interested to know how those if statements would look.

Lack of source control is more common than you think, even these days

[Jaws]

Another classic quote from the other day when I was trying to explain the benefits of running a build server/cruise control (after having a few instances of going back and forth asking developers for missing files) "In the past on some projects we haven't used any source control and just put our files on a central machine, could this save us some time?"

[NickFitz]

C# for Dummiesest

BTW, I'm available for training services. You provide the planks & heads

[NickFitz]

I'm working in a 100% contractor team who are having difficulties with the architecture I've presented them with. Data Access / Business Logic / Presentation. "I've read 200 pages of a C# book and they do not structure it in this way."

C# for Dummiesest

[Solent]

I'm working in a 100% contractor team who are having difficulties with the architecture I've presented them with. Data Access / Business Logic / Presentation. "I've read 200 pages of a C# book and they do not structure it in this way."

That is scarey, fundamental to every design. Hence C#, component orientated, surprised at the book not explaining this. I have been developing in C#, Data Access etc since PDC of 2001. One layer to modify in the event of change and a team not knowing this. eek