Anders Hejlsberg Is Right: You Cannot Maintain Large Programs In JavaScript

Re:Anders Hejlsberg Is Right: You Cannot Maintain Large Prog... by dllthomas on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @03:51AM (#4067806)

Certainly, large programs are harder to maintain than small programs. Certainly, modularity and encapsulation helps, in any language. The implication that, therefore, choice of language is irrelevant to maintainability is spurious.

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Re:Anders Hejlsberg Is Right: You Cannot Maintain Large Prog... by roopeshv on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @04:01AM (#4067835)

did you listen to the talk

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Re:Anders Hejlsberg Is Right: You Cannot Maintain Large Prog... by vlisivka on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @04:55AM (#4067952)

Definition of large program is "program, which is hard to maintain". So large programs are hard to maintain by definition.

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Re:Anders Hejlsberg Is Right: You Cannot Maintain Large Prog... by dllthomas on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @01:14PM (#4069585)

You're referring to a line I never drew. Programs can be larger or smaller in many dimensions - LoC, complexity, features... Other things being equal, the smaller program is easier to deal with. We don't need to say "these programs are large and these are small" to make valid inferences in this area.

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