siika2000

That's modern enterprise computing for you.

Are you sure you haven't misspelled you nick when registering? I mean, g and b are like right next to each other...

In what language are arrays of numbers their own class?

> The ideal would be a dynamic language with optional static typing but I have yet to see a language like that.

That would be Common Lisp.

> Kudos to his manager for actually looking at the code and recognizing the problem.

Huh?

> My manager looked at the code and asked "Who's going to maintain this? How will they understand it?" That's not the first time I've encountered these questions. I heard it when I used function pointers in C. I heard it when I used templates in C++.

So essentially the manager bans the use of basic language features because they have hired incompetent programmers who shouldn't be working in the languages before understanding them. How exactly did the manager "recognize the problem"? The problem isn't that people use languages like they are supposed to be used, it's that they have made bad hires, which is not the competent programmers fault.

Anyone know where I could buy some of that?

The article says pretty much what I've been thinking: too many choices, consumers have no idea which Nokia phone is any good.

However, I'm not so sure that this thinking is any good in the long run for Nokia, everybody says that company X should emulate Apple, it is just the easy thing to suggest because Apple is currently winning.