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  • I think this short talk explains so many things about the "parallel universes" or "camps" if you like (Perl, Java, ...) where developers actually live. :)

  • Yup. At $work I've joined a Java project a few months back, and that total reliance on Eclipse to take care of all the under-the-hood details (and the ensuing side-effect that no-one really know how to tinker an ant file, or compile from the command-line) is something that bemuse me to no end.

    But then, this could also be a defense mechanism. When I finally found a way for eclipse to show me the classpath used for the project, I must say that a little part of me died. Ye gods was it ever prolix...

  • Actually, this sounds like a success to me! A high-level tool that is so successful that you don't need to read the specs for the low-level tool? That's a successful abstraction.

    • You have a different definition of "success" that I do.

      • By success, in this case I meant that someone did not need to learn something that was not relevant to getting his/her work done. Of what benefit is knowing the classpath syntax for command-line Java? Analogy: using Perl makes knowing the order of arguments of the malloc function useless. Automatic memory management is a success for Perl, like automatic project management is a success for Eclipse.

        For reference, that classpath syntax is actually simple, but platform-specific (colon or semi-colon as path s

        • Ah...at that level sure. But you are taking it to the tool level which is where your Perl analogy falls apart. eclipse is not Java and "I" would think a Java programmer would know the classpath syntax.

          • You only see the difference because the Perl project-management tools aren't good enough yet.

            We'll be fixing that.

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