On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 21:48:33 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:48:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
Please kill me now. Dynamic typing is almost always a
_horrible_ idea.
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I liked this post very much. I remember thinking how superior
BBC Basic was to other languages for forcing you to declare
variables. (I know the question is not technically only about
this, but the philosophical tone is similar). And what a shock
it was to travel back in time when I learnt python...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_BASIC
Should this be turned into a wiki post? Maybe the main section
relating to why D does things a certain way? Or maybe an
opinionated section where there are articles that don't
represent the official D stance.
In general there is lots of hidden gold in newsgroup posts that
is not always easy to find. Curating this might help others
down the line. I can do a little, but not that much as I have
certain constraints and other things I should be focusing on.
python being an unmaintainable mess is the reason go even exists.
dynamic typing is dead.
