You are a *pedantic* coder. So what am I?

From: Eric Hellman <eric_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:18:49 -0500
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
OK, pedant, tell us why you think methods that can be over-ridden are static.
Also, tell us why you think classes in Java are not instances of java.lang.Class


On Feb 18, 2013, at 1:39 PM, Justin Coyne <justin_at_CURATIONEXPERTS.COM> wrote:

> To be pedantic, Ruby and JavaScript are more Object Oriented than Java
> because they don't have primitives and (in Ruby's case) because classes are
> themselves objects.   Unlike Java, both Python and Ruby can properly
> override of static methods on sub-classes. The Java language made many
> compromises as it was designed as a bridge to Object Oriented programming
> for programmers who were used to writing C and C++.
> 
> -Justin
> 
Received on Thu Feb 21 2013 - 12:19:26 EST