*laugh* Yeah, I've seen the aversion to using the word "Programmer". Which I use almost exclusively. Yeah, I develop programs. Yeah, I have an engineering degree. I'm a software engineer. But I'm mostly a programmer ;)
Java is good. You just don't want to use it in an instance where you need every last bit of speed you can get (ie: video processing). Then it can be slow (due to interpreter-based run-time).
Variable Location
anonymous
August 3 2005, 18:00:01 UTC
Bah. Variables should be sporadically sprinkled through programs, not defined up top where anyone can find them. They're like cake decorations. What good would having all the pretty colors and icing all on one side of a cake be? Yeah, yeah. I'll bet you're thinking: Well, you put the decorations on the top of the cake, so you should do the same with your variables in your program. Well, no. A cake needs icing and decorations on the sides too. And sometimes, you might even make a layer cake, and put it on the inside of the cake. That's the whole point of those vanilla cakes with colored sprinkles dissolved throughout. To give you something to look forward to. Something to investigate. Something to delight you. That's the whole reason someone created the GOTO BASIC statement, and then redisguised it as object oriented programming of functions with events that call them. It is therefore much more consistent to "dump variables whereever the hell" you are in the program. QED.
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Java is good. You just don't want to use it in an instance where you need every last bit of speed you can get (ie: video processing). Then it can be slow (due to interpreter-based run-time).
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but it still makes me grin.
http://www.suslik.org/Humour/Computer/Langs/real_prog2.html
(real programmers don't eat quiche)
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