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- Subject: Re: [OT] Interesting answer to why dynamic languages are hard for large code bases
- From: steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>
- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 15:23:38 +0200
On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@trms.com> wrote:
> Told from the perspective of JavaScript, but most of it applies to Lua, as
> well.
And on cue,
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/29mu50/sick_of_ruby_dynamic_typing_side_effects_and/
People still dream of a strong static type system which will magically
make the business of writing software easier...
(Though IMHO the Ruby community does score an own goal here with its
excessive love of monkey patching)