From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2006-12-05T06:40:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about Ruby philosophy

On 04.12.2006 13:04, Zouplaz wrote:

Others have given good answers that I cannot answer better.  However:

> 3) Why most C#, Java, C++ developper thinks that this approach is 
> dangerous and lead to bad practices ?

Are you sure this is true?  True, people frequently are scared of Ruby's 
dynamic nature - or criticize it.  But I would not go as far as to claim 
that the majority of C# / Java developers thinks this approach is dangerous.

> If this question have been answered many times, feel free to only 
> provide some links to references.

You will find discussions of these issues in threads dealing with 
"dynamic typing" - there's a ton of them.  Also, IIRC there are 
discussions of these issues that revolve around "rational" which used to 
change the behavior of Fixnum#/ which could cause problems for some 
programs.

Kind regards

	robert