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Bad programming practices (which usually come from the business, in the form of unreasonable deadlines, untrained or unskilled programmers given high positions,
by michaelochurch 13y ago
Bad programming practices (which usually come from the business, in the form of unreasonable deadlines, untrained or unskilled programmers given high positions, and politically mandatory use of terrible legacy systems) are unmaintainable. I've seen static typing fall down just as hard when the developers weren't good.
Static typing is right for some problems, but the idea that dynamic languages are inherently unmaintainable in some way that most static languages aren't is one that I find incorrect.
- seivan 13y agoCompiler does help with a lot of things that you'd require unit tests for with a dynamic language. Example: Runtime wouldn't be able to give you a protocol between how two classes would communicate. Say your service object that handles authentication. You would have to write unit tests so the two classes involved would know how to respond to each other.