From: "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Date: 2008-01-08T02:03:04+09:00
Subject: Re: STRONG dynamic typing favors tools..?

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John Papas:

> What I really hate about dynamic languages is that, for example in
> JavaScript if I misspell something there is no tool to find it and
> no (deterministic) test locate this bug.

The idea behind unit testing is that they catch such things for you.
Better yet, Test- (or Behaviour-) Driven Development means your code
does what it=E2=80=99s asked to do, so it doesn=E2=80=99t really matter if =
there are
any misspellings inside or not.

-- Shot
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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because
giants were standing on my shoulders.   -- Hal Abelson

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