From: Francis Hwang <sera@...>
Date: 2004-11-12T03:06:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Thinking About Java Interfaces In Ruby


On Nov 11, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Edwin Eyan Moragas wrote:
> shifting from php/perl to java when i grew a bit older in the code
> gave me a really good
> feeling because my IDE can check syntax even without running things i 
> wrote.
>
> then i as grew even older in the code, java just couldn't hack it
> anymore and i found
> ruby. but this time, i have learned how to write tests and i never 
> felt an ounce
> of unease just because i can't check syntax while writing.

I suppose one of the things that becomes evident in a learning process 
like this is that there are two sorts of correctness: Syntactic (does 
it compile?) and Semantic (does it do what it's supposed to do?) It's 
trivial to write code that is syntactically correct but semantically 
gibberish. It's the second you have to worry about, and a compiler 
can't help you with that stuff.

F.