by Roedy Green <see_website@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 3, 2008 at 10:49 AM
On 2 Apr 2008 22:19:35 GMT, ram@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Stefan Ram) wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>
> »At run time, method invocation requires five steps [...]
> a new activation frame is created« - JLS3, 15.12.4
Specs are created for language lawyers. It is a one-upman****p game.
They don't WANT "ordinary" people understanding the wording. They
imagine this convoluted language is more precise and proves their
superiority.
Such language is hardly a model to use for exposition.
I once had a job do***enting a very complicated computer program for
solving differential equations that predicted the flow of pollutants
in rivers and soils. I dawned on me that the mathematical technique
was equivalent to putting little boats into a river and measuring
diffusion of pollutants relative to each little boat. The author
insisted I remove this intuitive explanation because it made the whole
thing too simple, comprehensible and obvious.
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