Comments on: Call to Boycott Language Design by Voting http://digital-sushi.org/entry/call-to-boycott-language-design-by-voting/ Thoughts on language design, API design, compilers, Smalltalk, and Java technology Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:01:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Kevin Burton http://digital-sushi.org/entry/call-to-boycott-language-design-by-voting/#comment-1350 Kevin Burton Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:53:29 +0000 http://digital-sushi.org/entry/call-to-boycott-language-design-by-voting/#comment-1350 Mind if we create a vote for your proposal? :-P Mind if we create a vote for your proposal?

:-P

]]> By: Casper http://digital-sushi.org/entry/call-to-boycott-language-design-by-voting/#comment-1346 Casper Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:24:27 +0000 http://digital-sushi.org/entry/call-to-boycott-language-design-by-voting/#comment-1346 I'd rather have the community and its leaders actually missing the features (ppl like Colebourne) debate and prototype the issue, rather than some bureaucratic committee being controlled and segmented by corporate interests and a desire to catch up with .NET by halfheartedly patching the language over and over. Please decide on what you want to do. Bottom-up or top-down, you can not have both! I’d rather have the community and its leaders actually missing the features (ppl like Colebourne) debate and prototype the issue, rather than some bureaucratic committee being controlled and segmented by corporate interests and a desire to catch up with .NET by halfheartedly patching the language over and over.

Please decide on what you want to do. Bottom-up or top-down, you can not have both!

]]> By: Alex Miller - Java Closures Death Match http://digital-sushi.org/entry/call-to-boycott-language-design-by-voting/#comment-1344 Alex Miller - Java Closures Death Match Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:02:21 +0000 http://digital-sushi.org/entry/call-to-boycott-language-design-by-voting/#comment-1344 [...] and really understood the details and differences. Peter Ahé (former tech lead for javac), requested a boycott of the poll in [...] [...] and really understood the details and differences. Peter Ahé (former tech lead for javac), requested a boycott of the poll in [...]

]]> By: Damon Hart-Davis http://digital-sushi.org/entry/call-to-boycott-language-design-by-voting/#comment-1247 Damon Hart-Davis Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:25:58 +0000 http://digital-sushi.org/entry/call-to-boycott-language-design-by-voting/#comment-1247 Is it OK if I boycott your boycott, but choose not to vote anyway because it's all plain silly? B^> Rgds Damon Is it OK if I boycott your boycott, but choose not to vote anyway because it’s all plain silly? B^>

Rgds

Damon

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