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The Future of Programming
- zephyrfalcon 15y agoYou had me until "Dynamic typing will come to be perceived as a quaint, bizarre evolutionary dead-end in the history of programming."
- naradaellis 15y agoIt is a little hard to read because of this bias -- but some of the ideas presented are still compelling.
- dons 15y agoThere's essentially no research investment in dynamic typing, for many reasons. That lack of investment is going to hurt in the medium to long term, as all the advanced tools and techinques will assume program type information is available.
- zohebv 15y agoWhat are the specific features from dynamically typed languages that you would want to see in a statically typed program. The standard argument is "ease of use", but programs in modern static languages tend to be as easy/terse/short. You can express the same ideas in both languages, except static languages provide more information. So, what feature of dynamic languages, that is incredibly helpful to you every day, will you miss when you switch to a modern static language?
- eterps 15y agoRecommended reading if this kind of thing interests you: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf