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From: Programmer Dude <Chris@Sonnack.com>
Newsgroups: comp.programming,comp.object,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing (big advantage or not)---WAS:
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Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 12:23:40 -0500
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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.