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Agreed. Eric Lippert nailed it when (in part), he described[^] static typing/compilation/etc as a huge set of unit tests provided for you at no cost by the language designer/tool chain developers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: Eric Lippert nailed it when (in part), he described[^] static typing/compilation/etc as a huge set of unit tests provided for you at no cost by the language designer/tool chain developers.
That's a great summary. I never thought of type checking as a built-in unit test, that's also a great point.
Marc
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It's lack was responsible for the Ruby code bug that drove me most insane and took the longest to figure out. The strings "true" or "false" and Boolean values true or false look identical when output to the console via puts debugging but things like "true" && true won't do what you'd expect them to do if you thought both values were Booleans.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It explains why Unit-Testing originated in the Smalltalk community. In a dynamically typed language they become absolutely necessary.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Rob Grainger wrote: In a dynamically typed language they become absolutely necessary.
Indeed. I never fully appreciated the value of unit and integration testing until I started working in Ruby on Rails. And then I realized how much friggin additional work was required because one normally wouldn't need all that integration testing.
Marc
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As organizations fight for IT talent with proven skills, the business value of technical certifications is higher than ever. But choosing the right one is never an easy task. The job's not over until the paperwork is done?
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The committee behind ECMAScript wants a quicker release schedule to keep up with the pace of Web innovation. Getting people to confuse it with Java?
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10 lines of JS being considered the normal case, 50 lines a large script, and 500 being unthinkably huge? Halleluiah!
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Apple is Swiftly gaining adherents for its new programming language. One week in, and there are already experts with "10 years of experience"
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And jobs posted that require candidates to have 20 years experience with it to apply.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Swift is good for lock-in. You have to re-write your entire App if you want to port it to Android.
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How is that different than Objective-C?
For cross platform apps your choices remain C/C++ with wrappers around all the native API functions, HTML5 in an app that's just an icon and a browser control, or a cross compiler that tries to use magic to convert your code from the language you wrote in to one that the device has native support for.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I never said it was different to Objective-C.
Objective-C is also a good way to enforce lock-in.
Most Apps have code which is API-independant, and some have more than others ( for instance for an OpenGL game 90% of the code could be cross-platform,)
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The first paragraph includes this gem: "designed to combine the robustness of the Objective-C that iOS and OS X developers were used to with the speed of scripting languages like Python".
Er...
(Edit: I tried to post a similar comment there, but (like many blog sites now) they wanted access to my list of friends on Google+. I presume that's similar for other networks, and they can go take a flying f**k.)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Actually, isn't that a good description of it?  Icky syntax and scripty slowness? (OK, the syntax is much better than O-C, but it's not as pretty as some.)
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, the 3700 devs have 0.0027027027027027 years experience between them...just have to multiply them together 
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Or recruiters looking for 15+ years experience
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Top tier management level roles now require less programming and more administration. Are big IT companies the only ones offering senior programming roles? Many in the IT sector are calling for change. Your daily dose of, "he's an idiot to post this here."
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Jaxenter wrote: require less programming and more administration
As it should.
Jaxenter wrote: Top tier management
Is not a "good career".
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In other news, the Glazier brothers aren't getting as much first team football as Ryan Giggs 
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Oh dear, that boy does not understand software development from an organisational point of view. There are many roles required (developer, designer/architect, tester, product manager, project manager, scrum master, product owner, etc. depending on the style used), some with different skill levels (junior/senior), and what those roles are expected to do. A "managing" role is not for writing code.
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IF that article represents the sites typical quality, I think I may have a new top flaming target. Infoworthless's drivel is at least semi-competently written however content free it may be.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Working remotely requires special discipline and unique habits. Learn them to really contribute to the project. When you care enough not to be in the office
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Microsoft is planning to take security to the next level by the time Windows 10 is released to the public in 2015. Does this mean UAC is making a comeback?
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Within the article: "“Recently, the New York Times reported that 1.2 billion usernames and passwords were stolen by a single cybercrime organization. Which is scary considering there are only about 1.8 billion people online worldwide.”
Seems someone didn't consider that there may be some duplicates. I, for one, have at least 20 user names and passwords.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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