Sunday, December 26, 2004, 6:12:25 AM, Ron Jeffries wrote:
>> I have read all the arguments for dynamic typing and against dynamic
>> typing and agree with them all - although I think they are a liitle
>> over-stated. But no-one ever seems to touch on what I see as the biggest
>> weakness of dynamic typing. When I learned Ruby, I had to keep switching
>> to the manual to find a class or a method. I have become so accustomed
>> to the magic that IntelliJ works that when I use any other
>> language/editor it is like going back into the old days. Most of
>> IntelliJ's tricks make heavy use of Java's typing and I don't know how
>> they would be possible in a dynamic language. I learned Smalltalk in
>> squeak and found the browser very hard to work with - maybe I should try
>> a more modern browser ?
> I spoke to this in a reply to a reply: I do like the intellisense or
> equivalent capability, where the system pops up a list of what one
> might be talking about. In Smalltalk one gets that same information
> a different way, by opening a browser on the class in question.
> That's still less helpful, I'd grant. I think I prefer Smalltalk
> because of the other help it gives: the ready access to browsers,
> the incremental compilation and coding in the debugger, and the
> clarity yet compactness of the language itself. YMMV, of course.
When I walk around the office (and when I program myself), you
can tell which pairs are working in Smalltalk and which ones
are working in Java from a pretty good distance, because the
Smalltalk developers always have multiple windows open. The
Java folks generally seem constrained to a single box on the
screen.
This difference predates the cool recent additions such as
Intellisense, and dates back to when C++ and Smalltalk were
the dominant OO languages.
For whatever reason none of the other languages have ever
developed the "multiple window" IDE approach.
--
Doug Swartz
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