From: Premshree Pillai <premshree.pillai@...>
Date: 2005-01-05T22:16:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby JOBS all around the world

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:09:10 +0900, Gavri Fernandez
<gavri.fernandez@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 21:54:58 +0900, Lothar Scholz
> <mailinglists@scriptolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> > From my knowledge of around 25 languages it seems that only LISP with
> > heavy use of (the 'integer 'x) statements are both dynamic and strong
> > typed.
> 
> Resources which claim that Ruby/Python are strongly dynamically typed languages
> 
> http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=7590&start=0&msRange=15
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=strong%20typing
> 
> Bruce Eckel got it wrong in an article some time ago when he equated
> "statically-typed" with "strongly-typed", but I thought the Ruby
> community have always agreed that Ruby is strongly-typed....

Ruby checks for type constraint violations. Strong typed behaviour.

However, I must also add that the "typing issue" is an unresolved one,
if I may say so. Unresolved not because there are ambiguities, but
people have -- to use a cliche -- agreed to disagree about what
"constitutes" the different typing types.

> 
> gavri
> 
> 


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