Do everything in Java…

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 5 December 2014 at 02:25:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 12/4/2014 5:32 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> http://www.teamten.com/lawrence/writings/java-for-everything.html
>> i didn't read the article, but i bet that this is just another 
>> article
>> about his language of preference and how any other language he 
>> tried
>> doesn't have X or Y or Z. and those X, Y and Z are something 
>> like "not
>> being on market for long enough", "vendor ACME didn't ported 
>> ACMElib to
>> it", "out staff is trained in G but not in M" and so on. 
>> boring.
>>
>
> From the article:
>
> "Most importantly, the kinds of bugs that people introduce most 
> often aren’t the kind of bugs that unit tests catch. With few 
> exceptions (such as parsers), unit tests are a waste of time."
>
> Not my experience with unittests, repeated over decades and 
> with different languages. Unit tests are a huge win, even with 
> statically typed languages.

Well truth to be said, if you don't test, you don't know there is
a bug. Therefore there is no bug.