On Friday 18 June 2010 12:31:26, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Pete Chown <1@234.cx> writes:
One thing I'm curious about is Haskell versus Python or Ruby. Code in those languages is, IMO, prone to type related bugs because there is no compile-time checking. On the other hand, I would expect the density' of the code to be similar to Haskell. You can do a lot of the same things, although they support an OO programming style too.
Haven't you heard? Enough unit tests give you almost the same security as a good static type system at the expense of more code!
Uh, wait, why is that an advantage again? :p
Duh, because it's much faster to develop in a dynamically typed language. Writing out all those type signatures costs time. Much more time than writing a few dozen unit tests per function, right?