Re:Java 8’s new Optional type doesn't solve anything
by the_af on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @09:04AM
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Maybe, but if true that's still in the future. The OP claimed they hadn't seen a NPE "in years", which simply doesn't match my own experience.
As for novices: yes, novices tend to do that. They tend to miss, misremember or fail to put into practice what they should have learned on day 1. I've also seen senior devs who were not exactly newbies (in general) still using nulls because they don't grok Scala; the famous "you can program Fortran in any language". The reality of software development is that you have to deal with all these people.
As for novices: yes, novices tend to do that. They tend to miss, misremember or fail to put into practice what they should have learned on day 1. I've also seen senior devs who were not exactly newbies (in general) still using nulls because they don't grok Scala; the famous "you can program Fortran in any language". The reality of software development is that you have to deal with all these people.