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by speckledjim 5436 days ago
Java does no such thing as "encourages 20,000 line behemoths filled with dross". Bad programmers do.

If you're creating several methods that only differ a little bit, you're doing something stupid. In any language.

Bad programmers create bad code. The language is totally irrelevant.
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mattmanser 5436 days ago
It's really not irrelevant.

There's a reason that people aren't programming in COBOL or BASIC.

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speckledjim 5436 days ago
Yes, the reason is the runtimes for them suck, or aren't needed.

If there was a decent runtime for BASIC or COBOL, which gave real world advantages over everything else, I'd switch to BASIC or COBOL in a heart beat.

I'm a programmer. The language I use is pretty irrelevant. If It starts looking ugly, I'd just write a cross compiler. This is not rocket science.

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