On Friday, February 10, 2012 12:08:19 Brad Anderson wrote: > I actually read an article recently from someone who had written large > applications in dynamic languages and had come to the conclusion that the > productivity gains you have with the dynamic typing are pretty much lost to > the additional unit testing you must do to ensure everything works. I've > always had an uneasy feeling when working in dynamic languages but chalked > it up to my own inexperience.
I just can't stand the idea that whether an if statement is true or not could change the type of a variable (e.g. it's set to a string in one branch and an int in the other). I consider dynamic typing to be a _huge_ negative. It may be fine for short scripts and the like, but I'll never write anything serious using a dynamically typed language if I can avoid it. - Jonathan M Davis
