--- Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Dec 12, 2005, at 9:08 AM, Leonardo Quijano > Vincenzi wrote: > >> Compilation isn't the key though. Testing (not > just unit testing) > >> is. > > As I like to re-test my 300+ pages applications > for a syntax error > > after a refactoring. I can use my time better, you > know. > > Ever hear of "continuous integration"?! ;) Commit > your changes, > let the server run the tests while you reply to > e-mails. > I guess the point is that statically typed language allows getting rid of many tests because compiler can do them. With dynamic access of any kind (Ruby, Java reflection, etc) we have to write much more tests than necessary. By the way IMO the necessity for all the dynamic conversions is kind of self fulfilling prophecy. The need caused by deficiencies of HTML probably because HTML considered being unmovable part, like deity given thing. Well, it is not the case: lets take CORBA or Hessian protocol for communications; Java Web Start based Swing client application for interactions; and vuala! â highly responsive, 0 clients side management, statically typed environment where we do not need to write and run gazillions of tests to check for assignments. Compiler does its job! Konstantin Ignatyev PS: If this is a typical day on planet earth, humans will add fifteen million tons of carbon to the atmosphere, destroy 115 square miles of tropical rainforest, create seventy-two miles of desert, eliminate between forty to one hundred species, erode seventy-one million tons of topsoil, add 2,700 tons of CFCs to the stratosphere, and increase their population by 263,000 Bowers, C.A. The Culture of Denial: Why the Environmental Movement Needs a Strategy for Reforming Universities and Public Schools. New York: State University of New York Press, 1997: (4) (5) (p.206) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
