I think the issue has to do with features and functionality. They want to be more productive and with these new languages, you can do that. I think your concerns are valid though. Unless you are careful, there are plenty of opportunities for bugs. The new languages do a lot of things better and they are trying to eliminate the problems you mention. Still, I like being told about problems at compile time rather than during testing or worse, in production. I came to Java from C/C++ and enjoyed the garbage collection, simpler reference handling, and other features. These new languages are much more productive, but there are always tradeoffs.
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 2:06 PM, scphantm <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Robert Casto www.IWantFreeShipping.com Find Amazon Filler Items easily! -- 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.
