religious programming

[Marco Leise]

Am 11.10.2011, 11:57 Uhr, schrieb Gor Gyolchanyan  
<gor.f.gyolchanyan at gmail.com>:

> I don't know how to cure the people's minds from this religious
> plague, that poisons the software development industry.
>
> Can anyone help me out in this quest of enlightening people?

So you want to convert the barbarians? Then you must accept, that you  
yourself are a religious person about multi-paradigm programming. Yes the  
devil lies within everyone of us. I have been writing code in Java and it  
is OOP exclusively. The point is, that companies want a language that does  
things one way. It is easy to share code this way and to train programmers  
in that language. There is no "oh what is that construct doing?" in Java  
because the language is primitive and pretty verbose. It is also easier  
for me to only have a few concepts in my head when I write code. Maybe it  
is also the way I'm wired. Everything is an object the has to do X and  
works together with Y and Z is a concept that I can easily apply to almost  
everything.

If these C++ programmers you talk about like the restrictive use of  
language features, then you should respect that. They may have had a hard  
in the past with people writing code like Picasso. I mean, good code that  
uses features that were difficult for others to understand at first. If  
you don't understand other people's code you are likely to introduce bugs.  
As long as they aren't open to what really makes them stick to their style  
rules and language it is hard to say what would make them consider D.  
After all the pitfalls in D will be more confusing to them coming from C++  
than any C++ code could ever be.

Maybe they like the integrated unit tests. I've heard people are more  
likely to actually write them if they are integrated like that. Or at some  
point they say "if I could just define what the object state must be after  
this public method exits I wouldn't have this bug now!" and contracts come  
into play. Anyway, don't put C++ down unless they are open to speak about  
what they wish for and are willing to accept new ideas.