Re: "Program to an interface" - When to break a design pattern
On Thu, 12 May 2011, Lew wrote:
On 05/12/2011 12:51 AM, John B. Matthews wrote:
In article<iqevca$fmg$1@dont-email.me>,
Daniele Futtorovic<da.futt.news@laposte-dot-net.invalid> wrote:
On 11/05/2011 22:42, Lew allegedly wrote:
I have run into serious pushback from people who have a religion
about contract-based programming and a very different idea from me
about who should enforce what parts of a given contract. I don't
remember which Received-From-On-High placebo, er, miracle language
they were touting - it's famous but I don't care so I forget - that
allowed them to be just as dogmatic about "contract" as some in Java
are about "interface", but their flavor of fundamentalism was no
improvement. One One True Way's proselyte is just as crappy and
obnoxious as every other One True Way's.
_Ada_, mayhap?
Ada [1]? It's not impossible, but the zealotry reminds me more of
Eiffel [2], which includes particular support for design by contract
Yeah, it was Eiffel. Oy.
Are you thinking of the Eiffel fanboy who came round here with his little
toy language and made trouble? Few years back. I got in a scrap with him.
The guy was technically mistaken, which is fine, but he was also an
arrogant prat, which is not.
tom
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