From: Paul Novak <novakps@...>
Date: 2006-01-11T04:01:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby?

Some of the anxiety that those from a statically-typed background
experience when coming to a dynamically-typed language stems from the
environment that they have been swimming in.

If you spend much of your time answering the compilers complaints
about type-related issues, and you find yourself writing reams of
boilerplate just to get similar types to perform essentially the same
behavior, you might come to believe that static typing must be
important.

Of course, once you dive in and truly immerse yourself in a dynamic
language you get comfortable with duck typing.  You don't even give it
much thought until you have to explain to someone why it is not that
dangerous after all.

When the language is not getting in your way, you are free to focus on
your problem domain rather than worry about how to get the language
out your way.