ive been looking a few languages the past few days, groovy, ruby being the big two. i see all over the web people praising the world of dynamic type languages and the same question keeps ringing in my head, WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU WANT A DYNAMIC TYPING LANGUAGE???? i came to java from the VB and PHP world. both of those are dynamically typed and it was that one thing that drove me nuts. especially in working with teams of developers. when i moved to java and its static typing system, everything finally made sense, tweetie birds were flying, humming birds were humming around around and i was in love, i found a language that is quick and has inherent type checking built in at compile time.
i just remember the disasters and amount of bugs that occured with me in the dark days of (god help me) asp, vbscript, and to an extent PHP and don't understand why anyone in their right mind would not want their language of choice to be statically typed? ive heard the answer of, well its easier, in this case in my mind easy=lazy. i don't get it, please educate me. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
