From: Hugh Sasse Staff Elec Eng <hgs@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T23:55:41+09:00
Subject: Dynamic typing good practices?

Once again I have seen a long thread on Dynamic vs Static typing.
That's OK, it's an important thing to discuss and understand.
When I was formally taught programming it was with a staticly typed
language.  Had I actually been through a taught course on a
dynamically typed language this next question would probably not arise:

What are the good programming practices of particular merit for
dynamically typed languages?

AFAICS the main one seems to be test driven design/development.
Yes, this *can* be applied to statically typed languages, but has
particular merit in languages like Ruby.

Are there others that I really ought to know about?

        Hugh