Excerpts from Dimitris Chloupis's message of 2016-01-20 12:36:37 +0100: > we have witnessed 3 great migrations of coders > 1) The migration from Assembly to C/C++ and other high level languages > 2) The migration from C++ as the dominant force of coding to Java > 3) The migration from static types languages to dynamic typed languages
that's a great observation! and you are right, dynamic typed languages have won and smalltalk and lisp had it right all along. > On the matter of python getting optional static typing I can say this and > predict this, static type will never become anywhere as big for python as > generic types are in static type languages and I say that because I have a > good understanding of the python culture. that's a good point too. what i am interested in is the fact that having types available in these languages, research can finally look for conclusive evidence of how much advantage types really give, because all other differences between eg python and c++ are eliminated. i simply do not believe that any findings about types, by comparing python with c++ is valid because they are such different beasts of languages. greetings, martin. -- eKita - the online platform for your entire academic life -- chief engineer eKita.co pike programmer pike.lysator.liu.se caudium.net societyserver.org secretary beijinglug.org mentor fossasia.org foresight developer foresightlinux.org realss.com unix sysadmin Martin Bähr working in china http://societyserver.org/mbaehr/
