Raffael Cavallaro schrieb: > On 2006-06-14 09:42:25 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torben Ægidius > Mogensen) said: > >> It takes longer for the average >> programmer to get the program working in the dynamically typed >> language. > > Though I agree with much of your post I would say that many here find > the opposite to be true - it takes us longer to get a program working in > a statically typed language because we have to keep adding/changing > things to get the compiler to stop complaining and actually compile and > run
I think Torben was assuming a language with type inference. You write only those type annotations that really carry meaning (and some people let the compiler infer even these). > a program which would be perfectly permissible in a dynamically > typed language such as common lisp - for example - heterogeneous lists > and forward references to as yet non-existent functions. Um... heterogenous lists are not necessarily a sign of expressiveness. The vast majority of cases can be transformed to homogenous lists (though these might then contain closures or OO objects). As to references to nonexistent functions - heck, I never missed these, not even in languages without type inference :-) I don't hold that they are a sign of *in*expressiveness either. They are just typical of highly dynamic programming environments such as Lisp or Smalltalk. Regards, Jo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
