Software Needs Philosophers

[Roedy Green]

On 21 May 2006 02:15:31 -0700, "Xah Lee" <xah at xahlee.org> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>FACT: Java has no first-class functions and no macros. This results in
>warped code that hacks around the problem, and as the code base grows,
>it takes on a definite, ugly shape, one that's utterly unique to Java.

You need to back up a sweeping statement like that with an least an
example code showing how it could much better be handled with macros.

Java has lots of macro languages, including C++'s preprocessor. What
it does not have is a sanctioned one.  It has instead on-the-fly code
generation. See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/onthefly.html


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