On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 10:55:21PM +0100, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 1/2/15, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> > wrote: > > (The reason dynamically typed languages are enduringly popular is > > that it is easier to write code in them. People are inherently > > lazy.) > > Considering how much time one has to spend scratching their head what > type of a variable something is in Python, I think the *true slackers* > prefer statically typed languages. One hit of the compile button and > if it works you're 99% done already. :)
Yeah, I think dynamically-typed languages lost a bit of their edge in terms of catering to programmer laziness when statically-typed languages started introducing type inference. T -- Don't modify spaghetti code unless you can eat the consequences.
