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On 8/27/2011 2:42 AM, jaap wrote:
> Java has the nasty habit that he wants variables to be declared before
> you can use them. Visual Basic is much smarter, she creates them on the
> fly. Java programmers are afraid to make mistakes, that's why Java is
> created this way. Visual Basic programmers are real hero's: they don't
> make mistakes.

So explicit scoping is a "nasty habit"? Implicit scoping of variables 
unarguably makes closures in Python a lot harder to use, and experience 
from other dynamic programming languages is that implicit scoping often 
causes as many problems as it solves. In addition, static typing also 
allows the compiler to report more errors at compile-time, which greatly 
reduces costs as opposed to suddenly discovering them at runtime. It's 
not that VB programmers don't make mistakes, it's that they're unaware 
of their mistakes. 	

-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
tried it. -- Donald E. Knuth

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