You know the feeling when you open up some code from a fellow programmer, and it says a lot about them?
Their code style speaks to you as does the style of an essay does.
My latest experience is looking at various Groovy code snippets. There have been two extremes that I have come across:
I like my Java, just with a twist
These folks are happy in Java land, and the code looks just like it. There are just a few things differing. Maybe the odd ‘;’ is left off of the statements. Here and there variables aren’t staticly typed. But, mainly, it looks like Java
I want to be different
Some of the guys who have really bitten into Groovy really try hard to have their code NOT look anything like Java. Everything is groovy-fied to the extreme.
This reminds me of some days when I was deep in the Perl community. Since the language gives you 55 ways to do something, you see even more contrasting styles. In that environment you could find the hacker, the one liner, the I have a Comp Sci degree so I code correctly!, the obfuscator, and more.
Fun :)
August 3rd, 2004 at 1:22 pm
Ughh… Great, so Groovy is expressive enough that it won’t just be one language, it will be 3 different languages, depending on who’s writing it. I’m just getting less and less excited about Groovy the more I read your posts about it.
August 3rd, 2004 at 1:31 pm
It depends on how you look at it.
Java is OK in that most code looks similar (of course there are still many style differences).
However *personally* that bugs me a little too. It is very practical, but it is restricting. With something more expressive I can be a lot more productive… however I *will* give that the productivity is just in the WRITE phase, and it could affect the READ phase (i.e. maintainence).
If I want to write Groovy, I am more inclined to write Groovy, and not Java-without-semicolons. I want to take advantage of all of the dynamic features…. but it is a personal thing.
August 9th, 2006 at 3:30 am
Very nice site indeed
August 9th, 2006 at 3:35 am
forgot the link to my blog http://mynextblog123.blogspot.com
May 31st, 2007 at 6:15 am
Hi!
payday advances [url=http://loans.urllogs.com/payday-advances]payday advances[/url] cash advance loan [url=http://loans.urllogs.com/cash-advance-loan]cash advance loan[/url] payday cash advance [url=http://loans.urllogs.com/payday-cash-advance]payday cash advance[/url] cash advances [url=http://loans.urllogs.com/cash-advances]cash advances[/url] no fax payday loan [url=http://loans.urllogs.com/no-fax-payday-loan]no fax payday loan[/url] If you’ll excuse me, I really should be off now.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
she had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
September 28th, 2007 at 11:45 pm
RMWiXI erdwmouvxktk, [url=http://ptytpsxrnvnh.com/]ptytpsxrnvnh[/url], [link=http://fwhctiuaqvfy.com/]fwhctiuaqvfy[/link], http://tdmjtsxyohfj.com/