On 4/30/2014 1:05 PM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 16:38 +0000, Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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Right, it's not the significant indentation which perplexes you,
but the complete lack of compile time checking from Python. I'm
perplexed that anyone could prefer that too, but I suppose those
programmers who are way smarter than me and don't make any
mistakes find types burdensome, or are always writing correct
code that can't be type checked by any current checker.
I believe it is not that at all. Writing code using a dynamic language
is a totally different mind set to working with a static language,
I've heard this a lot, but I've yet to hear anyone explain concretely
how this "dynamic mindset" causes the lack of things like static code
checks and low-overhead primitives from being actual drawbacks. Maybe it
really is a case of me not "getting it", but it always sounds to me like
this "dynamic mindset" gets around these issues simply by ignoring them.
Since I don't personally do heavy development in dynamic languages, I'd
be interested in a strong rebuttal to this.
