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As I've already said .. No they aren't precious at all. That doesn't mean I dismiss them out of hand though. > testing character encoding is pretty ordinary. Really, you obviously work with a different calibre of developer than most of us then (ever had you outsourced resources try and explain endian-ness and character encoding) ? Perhaps you should just put your ideas down and let us all see clearly what you value so highly. Fraser. On 08/04/2013, Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com> wrote: > On 4/8/13 3:45 PM, Fraser Goffin wrote: >> No strong typing capability at all. OK, ..... I wonder what the first >> line of code that I'm going to have to write when there's no >> constraints at all it what I might receive and in whatever form it >> arrives. Perhaps it will also be in any character encoding and network >> byte order that the caller feels like using today, without declaring >> even that typing... I guess I can use a brute force approach until I >> find one that seems to fit .... Hope no one is going to be relying on >> this processing and it's performance though ! > > People rely on systems without strong typing all the time. Business > logic can take other forms. I suspect you're relying on several such > systems daily. Network protocols tend to be a different story, but > testing character encoding is pretty ordinary. Responding to various > structures, even unexpected structures, is not rocket science. > > If you want to caricature my ideas, you might first spend some time > looking at the tools you're already using. Not necessarily as a > programmer, but definitely as a customer. > > Are schemas really so precious to you? > > Thanks, > -- > Simon St.Laurent > http://simonstl.com/ >
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