> [strict typing] > > Not a negative, but realize that many people find it > of less value than the annoyances it brings with it > (myself included) Michael, I don't know which is more impressive; the fact that use of a strictly typed language implies that a copy of you would land on the poor unsuspecting programmer's desk, or that you are self-deprecating enough to acknowledge that this would probably be an annoyance (at least in the first seconds or so prior to recognition of the rather cool magic involved). > > It could work in perl when perl is being used in an > > FP manner; that would indeed be very Perlish. > > Yes! That would be a magic trick I'd love to see. Indeed.
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