On Monday, September 2, 2013 1:10:34 AM UTC-7, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Russ P." writes: > > > I just stumbled across this video and found it interesting: > > > http://vimeo.com/72870631 > > > My apologies if it has been posted here already. > > > > The slides for it are here, so I didn't bother watching the 1 hour video: > > > > http://gbaz.github.io/slides/hurt-statictyping-07-2013.pdf > > > > I guess for Python programmers looking to expand their horizons a bit, > > it's worth at least looking at the slides. But, it may overstate its > > case a little bit. Haskell's type system is way cool but the language > > introduces other headaches into programming.
I thought the video was amusing, but I am probably easily amused. I noticed that he did not list my current main language, Scala, as statically typed. I am not sure why, but perhaps because it inherits null from Java. In any case, his main point was that static typing reduces time to working code. I have no doubt that is true for large-scale programming, but I doubt it is true for small-scale programming. The question is where the crossover point is. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
