Peter wrote:
David Bergman wrote:
There seem to be two schools here: (1) the Standardists,
striving to
follow The Standard verbatim, and (2) the Pragmatics, trying to see how different mechanisms would affect their daily struggles with real problems.
Sorry, that's nonsense. Nobody in the world is (1), and the only reason to bring up this hypothetical school division is as an excuse to write broken code that happens to work today.
I believe in coherence and logics, but that is not necessarily derived only by interpreting The Standard, especially when threads are concerned, i.e., there might be other soures for coherence. I am a Theorist, with too many millions of lines of code under my belt not to be a Pragmatic at times. And, yes, I think following The Standard as closely as possible provide for good foundation for both solid theories and working implementations. If you are looking to bash junior developers, "if"-ing their ways through life, look elsewhere. /David