Great Quote Slava

Referring to this, er typical piece of er, collection of “thoughts” (I’m being nice so as not to distract from the great quote) with emphasis on a quote from this piece.

Referring to Java closures (sigh can we just use Scala yet? please?):

Extra verbosity makes sure that the code guides me along its intended path

Slava Pestov responds in his typically brilliant fashion:

He’s absolutely right. Closures have no place in a low-level procedural language whose target audience consists of programmers unwilling to learn to be productive.

So true Slava, so true.