Re:Fighting Complexity in Software Development
by tomp on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:29AM
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> some projects primarily need to develop functionality quickly; others prioritize stability
But they get the ballance completely wrong. In Python, I can just write code that returns some object or None (Python equivalent of null). In Java/C/C++ I can't - I have to appease the type system (i.e. declare the return type), but there is also no way to even later tell the compiler that it can't be null!
But they get the ballance completely wrong. In Python, I can just write code that returns some object or None (Python equivalent of null). In Java/C/C++ I can't - I have to appease the type system (i.e. declare the return type), but there is also no way to even later tell the compiler that it can't be null!