Robert Collins wrote: > > However, Perl, Python and Ruby are also often the wrong language. > > [try finding variable name spellos or type parity problems quickly in > > these languages - in a nice polite language like C, the compiler would > > find it nice and quickly for you]. > > I find that test cases find these things extremely fast. And the find > bugs that compilers cant :)
The Python "compiler" can't even find mis-spelled variable names, they have to wait for the run time envronment. Personally I think that is a little late :-). While I agree wholeheartedly that tests are necessay, I'm curious why you are advocating writing Python tests to find bugs at run time that say an Ocaml compiler will find for free at compile time. Erik -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ Erik de Castro Lopo +-----------------------------------------------------------+ C++: The power, elegance and simplicity of a hand grenade. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
