>By giving programmers a choice of number types, programmers are required to waste their time making choices that don’t matter So I guess making sure that you

>By giving programmers a choice of number types, programmers are required to waste their time making choices that don’t matter So I guess making sure that you can never do array[0.5] before your program ever runs doesn't matter? At least not to Crockford apparently, who seems to have some kind of irrational hatred for static type systems.