Subj : Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
To   : Nightfox
From : tenser
Date : Thu Jan 11 2024 02:46:06

On 09 Jan 2024 at 05:22p, Nightfox pondered and said...
 
 Ni>   Re: Re: RIP Niklaus Wirth
 Ni>   By: tenser to Blue White on Wed Jan 10 2024 01:27 pm
 Ni> 
 Ni>  te> My sense is that Java programmers favor a style that is heavy on
 Ni>  te> frameworks, design patterns, and abstraction, often to the point of
 Ni>  te> excess.  This yields all sorts of efficiency problems, among other th
 Ni> 
 Ni> I haven't done much with Java (aside from some Android work), but I've
 Ni> seen this with programmers in some other languages too.  Sometimes
 Ni> people seem to like to make a bunch of different classes to handle
 Ni> different parts of the behavior, and abstract things into the various
 Ni> classes and to interfaces, etc., and that at least makes it more
 Ni> difficult to learn the codebase for someone new.  Sometimes, such
 Ni> designs seem overly complicated.

Yes.  A lot of programmers seem to _really_ love complexity,
and some I'm sad to say view their ability to handle complexity
as a sign of superiority over those around them who, perhaps,
can't keep quite as much in their heads at one time.  It's not
great.

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