From: Programmer Dude <Chris@Sonnack.com>
Subject: Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing (big advantage or not)---WAS: c.programming: OOP
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:23:40 -0500
Date: 2004-08-20T12:23:40-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kpcci01smbd7l757ge3hpumnura305b5kg@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dlqVc.28712$9Y6.11665@newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net
Richard Riehle writes:
> As several people have noted, it is not (or should not be) a
> debate about the virtues of static typing over non-static
> typing. Rather the discussion should be about when it is
> appropriate to use static typing (if often is) and when it
> is appropriate, as it often is, to use non-static typing. It
> should not be a debate about Smalltalk or Lisp, at one
> extreme, versus Ada, at the other the other extreme.
> Instead, it should be the case that we all learn the tools
> of our profession, understand when to use which tool,
> and not be so dogmatic about one tool over another,
> that we fail to understand the advantages of each tool
> in different circumstances.
HEAR! HEAR!!
> I personally like Smalltalk.
Ditto. I borrowed some of it's more interesting ideas for my
own language, BOOL.
> I like, but am not proficient in Lisp.
Double Ditto! Very cool language.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-20 17:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <Xns954A6B267F42Fcristianosadunhotmai@130.133.1.4>
[not found] ` <memo.20040819213812.1988A@brangdon.m>
[not found] ` <Xns954B81678A9D6cristianosadunhotmai@130.133.1.4>
2004-08-20 17:15 ` Static vs. Dynamic typing (big advantage or not)---WAS: c.programming: OOP Richard Riehle
2004-08-20 17:23 ` Programmer Dude [this message]
2004-08-21 0:46 ` Nick Roberts
2004-09-03 20:10 ` Programmer Dude
replies disabled
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox