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summary: Click-bait title, content-free article, great language, excellent conversation in (HN) comments.
by thebigshane 14y ago
summary: Click-bait title, content-free article, great language, excellent conversation in (HN) comments.
- thebigshane 14y agoOh, and here's a pretty good comment on the article regarding static vs dynamic typing: eamonnerbonne Thursday, September 13 2012 It’s a night and day difference. Let me try a writing analogy with Word + Notepad. Say you’re trying to write a text for a particularly picky client that will reject your text if you make any mistake or use any unclear phrase. Then dynamic typing is like Notepad: you better be careful, have lots of proofreaders, and expect to have your text rejected often. And when you print it, it’s in a slow-to-read monospaced font. Static typing is like Word with all the grammar checking turned up to 11 (it won’t let you print or email any text with what it thinks is an error). It’s harder to learn, and sometimes your PC runs slowly, and the grammar checker will find lots of irrelevant stuff, and to keep it happy you might need to change your style, but it *will* make certain types of error irrelevant (e.g. spelling), and occasionally catch more complicated mistakes too. Also, as a bonus that might or might not be relevant, word prints in a font you can read much more quickly. The point being: they’re totally different ways of doing things. [http://gigaom.com/cloud/will-go-be-the-new-go-to-programming-language/#comment-994342 http://gigaom.com/cloud/will-go-be-the-new-go-to-programming...]