From: William Djaja Tjokroaminata <billtj@...>
Date: 2002-12-19T08:52:17+09:00
Subject: Re: help -- persuade my boss to adopt ruby

Dan Sugalski <dan@sidhe.org> wrote:
> At 2:58 PM +0900 12/18/02, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

>>dynamic typing can coexist with static typing in one program

> It doesn't get you any of the benefits you wanted it for, though. 
> There's no speed win without a lot of work and there's no safety win. 
> What, then, is the point?

Hi,

For a concrete example, just look at Pyrex, which is "Python with C data
types":

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python/Pyrex/version/Doc/About.html

Pyrex gives the user an option, whether to code purely in Python (dynamic 
typing), or to throw in some C "native" data types (static typing) in the 
middle of the code, which can make the code run faster.

Regards,

Bill