Re: Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to strengthen it?

[jan.de.kruyf@gmail.com]

On Friday, May 29, 2015 at 12:33:38 AM UTC+2, Randy Brukardt wrote:

> ...
> > And I think the last point is the deciding factor. At least research in 
> > the process
> > of religious conversion says so. You join a crowd because you like some of 
> > the
> > people, and after a while you start to think that there is something in 
> > what they
> > teach there.
> 
> Of course, I doubt this group is immune to that. We're worshiping in the 
> church of Ada here. ;-)
> 
>                        Randy.

Yes and I am the irreligious christian. 
"The Ada church is not a church, it is stone-age tribalism" ha ha.

Here is another Dijkstra for you also:

"As you all remember, the first and foremost objective was the development of the Elixir that would give the one that drank it Eternal Youth. But since there is not much point in eternal poverty, the world of science quickly embarked on its second project, viz. the Philosopher's Stone that would enable you to make as much Gold as you needed.

Needless to say, the planning of these two grandiose research projects went far beyond the predictive powers of the seers of that day and, for sound reasons of management, the accurate prediction of the future became the third hot scientific issue." (EDW898)

j.