From: mrp@... Date: 2001-12-21T23:35:03+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:29228] Re: The benefits of dynamic typing? [slightly tangential follow-up] this is a link to a paper/talk about strong typing, which gives overviews/histories/benefits of various strategies tried througout the ages, and explains type inference too. it talks about applying this technique to perl, but it could be of interest here. http://perl.plover.com/yak/typing/ martin.