On 2010-09-30, Pascal Bourguignon <p...@invitado-174.medicalis.es> wrote: > Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nos...@hotmail.com> writes: >> do you have any evidence that this is actually so? That people who >> program in statically typed languages actually are prone to this "well >> it compiles so it must be right" attitude?
> Yes, I can witness that it's in the mind set. Huh. So here I am, programming in statically typed languages, and I have never in my life thought that things which compiled were necessarily right. Not even when I was an arrogant teenager. I guess I don't exist. *sob* > Well, the problem being always the same, the time pressures coming from > the sales people (who can sell products of which the first line of > specifications has not been written yet, much less of code), it's always > a battle to explain that once the code is written, there is still a lot > of time needed to run tests and debug it. At $dayjob, they give us months between feature complete and shipping, because they expect us to spend a lot of time testing, debugging, and cleaning up. But during that time we are explicitly not adding features... > But my point is that at least with dynamic programming languages, > there's an alternative mindset and it is easier to implement such > a scheme than with static programming languages. I think this grossly oversimplifies things. -s -- Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / usenet-nos...@seebs.net http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my opinions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
