On 28/06/2013 9:52 PM, John McKown wrote:
Never put off till run-time what you can do at compile-time. -- D. Gries
Careful! There are quite a few assembler programmers frequent this list!
However, it does seem that the hipsters are writing code in dynamically
typed languages these days. Maybe speed of development is more important
than static typing to the unwashed masses.
I'm a big fan of duck typing. Very powerful concept that the value
carries the type and not the variable. I love programming in modern
scripting languages. Not only are they fast
(I've got lua zlib script that can compress a data set faster and with
better compression ratios than TRSMAIN) they are also easy to learn and
have wonderful expression.
Closures, functional programming, loads of useful libraries and huge
communities that contribute great code. Just browse github - a treasure
trove of delights.
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