Spoon progress 15 April 2006: inert method deletion details etc.
Bert Freudenberg
bert at impara.de
Tue Apr 18 13:42:19 UTC 2006
Am 17.04.2006 um 23:07 schrieb Chris Muller:
>
>> I must admit (not surprisingly :) that I'm a fan of using test
>> cases to
>> establish coverage, and improving the test cases over time. I also
>> think
>> this is markedly different than static typing advocacy; in fact, I
>> think
>> they're near polar opposites. The static typing people seem to
>> want to
>> use it in large part as a hedge against testing. I think testing is
>> critical and unavoidable, and we may as well use the information
>> we get
>> from it to the fullest. But sure, there are still pitfalls to deal
>> with.
>
> Well I've never met anyone even in the Java world who was really
> serious when they said, "hey, it compiles, let's go to production..!"
Actually I have heard exactly this statement from students - "it
compiles, so it must be right". The compiler's type checking is there
so you can only write correct programs, right?
- Bert -
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