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On 18/09/2015 05:34, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: |
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>>> This sucks, but it seems to be the way a lot of web stuff is deployed |
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>>> > > these days. |
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> All these dynamic languages suffer from the fun problem that developers |
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> that don't write enough tests have essentially no guarantee that their |
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> code actually parses. I can't count how many times I've run Ruby, |
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> Python, or Bash scripts only to have 'variable not found' or type |
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> errors; all of the things that compilers do really well[1]. |
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I well remember flameeyes' bitching about packaging ruby gems. One |
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problem kept coming up over and over: tests would fail, usually because |
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the dev used some code buried deep in his own workstation, and that HAD |
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NEVER BEEN RELEASED. Braindeaddeaddead |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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