From: "J.Ryan Sobol" <ryansobol@...>
Date: 2006-01-11T04:15:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby?

Well put.

~ ryan ~


On Jan 10, 2006, at 2:01 PM, Paul Novak wrote:

> 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.
>