From: Bulat Ziganshin <bulatz@...>
Date: 2002-12-17T15:09:42+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

Hello Dan,

Monday, December 16, 2002, 11:59:25 PM, you wrote:

>>concrete, i feel that Ruby is not strict enough and can't be compiled
>>for more or less fast execution.

DS> This is very much incorrect.
DS> This is a *very* non-trivial thing to do,

yes, i mean exactly that

DS> Dynamic typing also has a number of advantages that make it better
DS> suited for several classes of problems than a statically typed 
DS> language such as C or Java. The cost that dynamic typing imposes is 
DS> the price you pay for that better suitability--it's an engineering 
DS> tradeoff like any other, as no feature is free.

i think that 90% of declarations may be statically typed and this give more
robust and self-commenting code. deciding which types will be appropriate
here is just a kind of deciding which interfaces we will use

please see at Array docs. in overloaded functions one just writes what
we need a String or a Range here, not that you must supply any object
with given semantics

-- 
Best regards,
 Bulat                            mailto:bulatz@integ.ru