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On 22/01/2015 19:25, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:
>> Since the "language wars" of the 1990s, dynamic languages have won.
>
> Are you kidding?  Nothing has won, the wars are still going on, and
> dynamic and static typing both have their winning use cases and will be
> around forever.
>

Unless you offer a new language that is absolutely guaranteed to have 
the best of both worlds, in which case there'd be major flame wars over 
whether you'd call it dynatically or stamically typed.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence