From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2005-03-30T12:19:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Blah-Blah List (and why line counts are a bad metric)

Ben Giddings wrote:
> So, I did a search for Ruby on Rails today, and my interest was piqued  
> by the third result.  It said "Move over Ruby on Rails, Java can be  
> concise too"
> 
> http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=32723
> 
> That page makes the claim "After solving all the problems and adding a  
> number of missing features, the entire application is only 300 lines  
> longer (a 50% increase) and the server tier took not more than 2 days  
> to write."
> 
> I don't know where to find the Ta-Da list source code, but I found some  
> source for Bla-Bla List.  I thought you people might get a chuckle  
> about the "concise" Java code, and the meaninglessness of line number  
> counts:
> 
> https://svn.rifers.org/blablalist/trunk/src/java/blablalist/dao/ 
> Account.java

A chuckle? Call it a belly laugh followed by a small tear in the
corner of one eye...

I don't think Rails has anything to fear from... "Jails," shall we
call it? Java in Jails?  (Don't drop the creamer!)

Besides which each one of those files has to be compiled anytime
anything changes. Gotta love an interpreted language that *has* to
be compiled first...


Hal