Re: [higgins-dev] Java 5, going once...

["Markus Sabadello" <msabadello@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If life is easier for developers, developers produce fewer bugs.
If there are fewer bugs, life is also easier for users.

Therefore, making life easier for developers also makes life easier for users :D

Markus

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Eric Norman <ejnorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Nov 29, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Tom Doman wrote:
>
>> Those are the big three and indeed they make life for developers simpler.
>>
>> Tony, why do you not agree that these make life simpler?  Or is it just a
>> matter of detailing Java 5 features for those who haven't done development
>> using Java 4 followed by 5?
>
> Paul's response to the effect that Higgins is conservative about
> upgrading to more recent version of things is comforting.  And I
> have no reason to doubt that this is the policy.
>
> Nevertheless, comments such as the above are somewhat disquieting.
>
> Simplifying life for developers is not the goal; simplifying life
> for users is.  Here's another rule of thumb I'll suggest.  Make
> sure that you will never have to tell any user "upgrade to version
> ??? of ???".
>
> I'm not making any accusations here.  I'm just being a bit of a nag
> with what I hope is a friendly reminder.  I definitely have heard
> the above "solution" elsewhere.
>
> Eric Norman
>
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