Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 3rd Sep 2006 12:23 UTC
What is the future of programming? I retain a romantic belief in the potential of scientific revolution. To recite one example, the invention of Calculus provided a revolutionary language for the development of Physics. I believe that there is a "Calculus of programming" waiting to be discovered, which will analogously revolutionize the way we program. Notation does matter." More here.
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2005-09-11
Actually, that's legal in boo - numbers are rather flexible.
I do understand the actual difference between inferenced and dynamic, I just don't see what advantage the loss in speed gives you. I just see the disadvantage of reduced error checking.
Perhaps this is just the way I program, but I have never found a situation where dynamic typing would produce a more elegant solution than static typing.