Pascal Costanza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Torben Ægidius Mogensen wrote:
> > So while it may take longer to get a program that gets > > past the compiler, it takes less time to get a program that works. > > That's incorrect. See http://haskell.org/papers/NSWC/jfp.ps - > especially Figure 3. There are many other differences between these languages than static vs. dynamic types, and some of these differences are likely to be more significant. What you need to test is langauges with similar features and syntax, except one is statically typed and the other dynamically typed. And since these languages would be quite similar, you can use the same test persons: First let one half solve a problem in the statically typed language and the other half the same problem in the dynamically typed language, then swap for the next problem. If you let a dozen persons each solve half a dozen problems, half in the statically typed language and half in the dynamically typed language (using different splits for each problem), you might get a useful figure. Torben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
