On 18/09/2015 05:34, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >>> This sucks, but it seems to be the way a lot of web stuff is deployed >>> > > these days. > All these dynamic languages suffer from the fun problem that developers > that don't write enough tests have essentially no guarantee that their > code actually parses. I can't count how many times I've run Ruby, > Python, or Bash scripts only to have 'variable not found' or type > errors; all of the things that compilers do really well[1].
I well remember flameeyes' bitching about packaging ruby gems. One problem kept coming up over and over: tests would fail, usually because the dev used some code buried deep in his own workstation, and that HAD NEVER BEEN RELEASED. Braindeaddeaddead -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
