Christopher Smith wrote:
While programmers tend to hate verbosity (myself included), there is a *lot* to be said for its benefits in making code easy to read/understand, easy to discern what was intended in the case of an error and therefore easy to debug.
I'm not convinced that this is an either/or thing. Type inference can get you 80+% of the value of static typing without all the verbosity.
In addition, why can't a language record what types are flying past while a program is running and complain when something floats past that doesn't match? While this might be tough when you have fully compiled code, it's a little different when you have VM's running the code.
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