Excellent reality check article
rzwitserloot posted in programming on February 1st, 2007
A nice, balanced look at the pros of typing. It foregoes the usual duds like ‘you have fewer type mismatch errors’, but digs into the real benefits.
February 2nd, 2007 at 0:25
Personally, I just wish that Ruby and its “dynamic language” fanboys would disappear. As you can see from their use of meaningless terms such as “dynamic language” and “duck” typing, their superficial understanding of dynamic type systems does not extend beyond “ooh look we have terser code because we omit declarations”.
February 2nd, 2007 at 3:29
Indeed. There’s so much interesting material here and it’s all being obscured by vapid talk replete with tons of analogies that serve no useful purpose.