Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:49:42 -0500 Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:49:46 +0100 From: Patricia Shanahan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: in praise of type checking References: <9f6hhqF717U1@mid.individual.net> <82lu87t4e47t1256r1vh7ich0esreter46@4ax.com> <9fb3m5F79oU1@mid.individual.net> <19264117.413.1318091736115.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@prib32> <9fi3kpFt0eU1@mid.individual.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.244.254.148 X-Trace: sv3-mzhApOwUvQ4GzugDbOfp31t9EL4/6rNffEkl1AP/CgnIT3dfjTU456chv99TY7JyQXkT3ABiuqz5ECn!eo83qi5elG8xuadFkzhVoWDxxK8i1xlNauPfbx5J23wNQcLKcvvD3VxTnY3w2sgKPkKSgNOPmcmT!7iKGorpIWX8hdMytrkLwKoh65AG+8fnNflw7g3uB95j1APY= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1970 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8726 Arved Sandstrom wrote: ... > As Gene said (and I happen to agree with), there is no one optimum. > One guy in one situation will see that dynamic typing suits his > purposes better than static typing (or at least he thinks it does), > and another guy in another situation thinks that static typing is > better than dynamic typing (and he in turn may have good reasons, > adequate reasons, or lousy reasons for believing so). ... It does not even have to be different people. Some tasks seem easier to me in a dynamically typed language, others with static typing. Patricia