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Article #3052Re: blip [Re: Dynamic typing -- To Have and Have Not ...]
From: Thomas M. Breuel
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 20:34
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1991 20:34
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In article <22032@yunexus.YorkU.CA>, oz@yunexus.yorku.ca (Ozan Yigit) writes: |> >In contrast, the supposed conciseness of dynamically typed languages |> >costs dearly in compile time, run time, and (for projects with many |> >debugging runs) programming time. |> |> Dan, you have no idea what you are talking about. I wouldn't be quite so harsh. Static type checking is very good at eliminating a large fraction of those mistakes that people commonly make. As a side-benefit, simpler compilers are able to generate better code if type information is available at compile time. To me, polymorphic statically typed programming languages like ML are currently the best compromise between flexibility, compile-time checking, and efficiency.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!ai.mit.edu!tmb From: tmb@ai.mit.edu (Thomas M. Breuel) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.object Subject: Re: blip [Re: Dynamic typing -- To Have and Have Not ...] Message-ID: <14160@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 19 Mar 91 20:34:00 GMT Article-I.D.: life.14160 References: <PCG.91Mar13185855@aberdb.test.aber.ac.uk> <18926:Mar1422:18:5691@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <1991Mar16.052952.10201@cs.cmu.edu> <3523:Mar1803:21:0591@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> <22032@yunexus.YorkU.CA> Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Reply-To: tmb@ai.mit.edu Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab Lines: 16