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- joel_spolsky_is_a_crotchety_old_man.html accessdate "2016-02-02".
- joel_spolsky_is_a_crotchety_old_man.html author Ned_Batchelder.
- joel_spolsky_is_a_crotchety_old_man.html date "2006-01-01".
- joel_spolsky_is_a_crotchety_old_man.html isCitedBy Criticism_of_Java.
- joel_spolsky_is_a_crotchety_old_man.html publisher Nedbatchelder.com.
- joel_spolsky_is_a_crotchety_old_man.html quote "''Why does Joel pick out pointers and recursion as the two gatekeeper concepts? Because he found them difficult? As Tim Bray points out, Java is perfectly adept at recursion, and concurrency may be a more important and difficult concept to master in any case. The emphasis on recursion in Lisp languages is a bit over the top, and doesn't carry into other programming cultures. Why do people think it's so important for software engineering? Don't get me wrong: I love recursion when it's the right tool for the job, but that is just not that often to warrant Joel's focus on it as a fundamental concept.".
- joel_spolsky_is_a_crotchety_old_man.html quote "While we're hunting around for tough concepts that separate the men from the boys, what about the one that got Joel and I into a tussle two years ago: Exceptions. He doesn't like them, bascially, because they confuse him. Is this any different than a Java guy not liking pointers? Yes, you can avoid exceptions and use status returns, but you can also try really hard to avoid pointers. Does that mean you should? So Joel's got the concepts he likes , and laments their decline, but doesn't seem to notice that there are newer concepts that he's never caught on to, which the Java kiddies feel at home with.''".
- joel_spolsky_is_a_crotchety_old_man.html title "Joel Spolsky is a crotchety old man".
- joel_spolsky_is_a_crotchety_old_man.html url "http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/200601/joel_spolsky_is_a_crotchety_old_man.html".