From: Steve Litt <slitt@...>
Date: 2006-01-11T04:32:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Ideas on "Why Living Dangerous can be A Good Thing" in Ruby?

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 02:01 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.

Or for some of us it's just the opposite. I started on a Heathkit ET6800 
Microprocessor Trainer with a 8 bit 6800 processor programmed in hexidecimal. 
I spent a week trying to program it to play music using Gotos, which was what 
many people still used in 1982. Then a programmer buddy told me about modular 
programming (functionally decompose into subroutines), and I easily 
programmed it. That gave me a love of encapsulation, and an absolute fear of 
spaghetti programming, self modifying code, global variables, and the like.

When I got to C, I was grateful for type checking and local variables.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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