From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2008-02-08T03:05:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby type-safe? Ruby strongly/weakly typed? Ruby pitfalls?

On Feb 7, 2008 11:24 AM, tho_mica_l <micathom@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This reminds me about several good articles related with Dynamic typing
> > versus Static typing.
> And how little the arguments perpetuated in these articles have
> changed since I first looked into lisp. BTW why don't we all use Lisp or
> Smalltalk today?
>
> Ruby is a pretty cool language and the perfect tool for a lot of use
> cases. Some optional strictness here and there really wouldn't hurt
> though.

Counter-argument: it wouldn't help, either. Many people manage to
develop lots of useful software in Ruby without it.

-austin
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