On Thursday, August 11, 2016 at 8:33:41 AM UTC+12, Juan Pablo Romero Méndez wrote:
> I've been trying to find (without success so far) an example of a situation > where the dynamic features of a language like Python provides a clear > advantage over languages with more than one type. I have used, and continue to use, both static and dynamic languages. With static languages, once a piece of code compiles without errors, you have a slightly higher level of confidence in its correctness than with a dynamic language. On the other hand, a dynamic language allows me to be much more productive, because I have to write less code to begin with. The closest I can offer for an apples-to-apples comparison is PyCairo <https://github.com/ldo/pycairo> versus Qahirah <https://github.com/ldo/qahirah>. Both are Python bindings for the Cairo graphics library; the former is written in C as a Python extension module, the latter is done in pure Python using ctypes. I didn’t write the former; I merely tried to rescue it from abandonment to see if I could fill in a few more missing features. And what I found was, it would be quicker to start again from scratch than to continue working on it. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
