Right, its maybe just a little less productive than something like Java because you do have to work out types a bit more and think about memory a bit more. The

Right, its maybe just a little less productive than something like Java because you do have to work out types a bit more and think about memory a bit more. The end benefit tends to be though that... your code compiles, and it just works. So maybe a little more time up front, for, potentially, less time down the road debugging.