On Friday 18 June 2010 12:31:26, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > Pete Chown <[email protected]> writes: > > One thing I'm curious about is Haskell versus Python or Ruby. Code in > > those languages is, IMO, prone to type related bugs because there is > > no compile-time checking. On the other hand, I would expect the > > density' of the code to be similar to Haskell. You can do a lot of > > the same things, although they support an OO programming style too. > > Haven't you heard? Enough unit tests give you almost the same security > as a good static type system at the expense of more code! > > Uh, wait, why is that an advantage again? :p
Duh, because it's much faster to develop in a dynamically typed language. Writing out all those type signatures costs time. Much more time than writing a few dozen unit tests per function, right? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
