The paradise pattern (Anti pattern)

[Martin Drautzburg]

This is a *very* sarcastic one:

http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?doc...id=2572&wpid=0

[Urs van Binsbergen]

> This is a *very* sarcastic one:
> http://www.seedwiki.com/page.cfm?doc...n&wikiid=2572&
> wpid=0

Very sarcastic indeed. Sarcasm is more fun when there is a true and
important thought behind, which I doubt very much in this case. The one
who wrote this remembers me of the standing-two-hours-by-your-desk-and-
explaining-you-why-your-company-is-going-down guy you can find in almost
every middle to large company.

So Java has lots of "code that contains no program logic but is required
to convince the compiler you did the right thing"? And the typical grown-
to-1000-lines Perl killerapp script does not have such code, right? Or
is he prefering more consequent OO-implementations (Smalltalk?) over
Java, which seems to be the case if he talks of "Java's primitive Data
types" (arhh?).

Maybe he is right a bit after all. But his pseudo-"sarcastic"-talk
approach obfuscates any intention that might be behind his words.

Btw I haven't said there is no such thing as a paradise antipattern.

Urs