Development quote of the week

Posted Jan 8, 2022 15:47 UTC (Sat) by mkbosmans (subscriber, #65556)
In reply to: Development quote of the week by NYKevin
Parent article: Development quote of the week

Encoding more and more complexity into the type system until you have created a monstrosity sounds like the perfect fit for your typical Java codebase though!
;-)

Development quote of the week

Posted Jan 8, 2022 20:12 UTC (Sat) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link] (3 responses)

We achieve nirvana as soon as we design a type system that's able to catch 100% of the bugs that any program written in the language in question can possibly have.

Development quote of the week

Posted Jan 14, 2022 13:32 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

> We achieve nirvana as soon as we design a type system that's able to catch 100% of the bugs that any program written in the language in question can possibly have.

... by making it impossible to write any useful program in that language. The poor users will not be in nirvana, though: they'll be longing for a system in which it's actually possible to get work done. :)

Development quote of the week

Posted Jan 20, 2022 15:25 UTC (Thu) by jezuch (subscriber, #52988) [Link] (1 responses)

...actually we'll be in a nirvana where no work can be done, and thus no work *has* to be done.

😜

Development quote of the week

Posted Jan 21, 2022 9:08 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

And that'll fix global warming too, no work, no heat ... :-)

Cheers,
Wol