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From: Maciej Sobczak <no.spam@no.spam.com>
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Subject: Type declarations problematic?
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:17:35 +0100
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Hi,

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/10/12.html

"[it] seems to be that it’s explicit typing, where the programmer is 
asked to declare the type of things, that leads to most of the problems.

[...] it’s starting to look like type declarations are one of those 
accidental difficulties that good programming languages can eliminate."


It is obvious that there is a place for dynamically typed languages, but 
the above statements seem to be a bit too far-fetched. Do they mean that 
"typeless" languages will just suck some of the Java audience (fine for 
me), or is it maybe a more general problem that will drive the evolution 
of programming languages further away from strongly typed systems?
Do you plan a switch to Ruby? ;-)

Comments are welcome.

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