On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 4:06 AM, scphantm <scpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD YOU WANT A DYNAMIC TYPING LANGUAGE????
I have a PhD in formal methods, so static typing systems - even complex ones - appeal very strongly to the academic part of my psyche. However, there is also great appeal to typing systems that are simple; ones that get out of the way and let me get things done. In some ways this is like WS-* versus REST. WS-* is undoubtedly more sophisticated and powerful but people building scalable global web services tend not to use it and instead choose the simplicity of things like REST and apply their own light-weight governance on top to make up for any shortcomings of the underlying layers. I think perhaps in the future hybrid type systems may provide the best of both worlds but we are many years away from understanding what best practices would be in such systems. Cheers, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
