Functional - Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural language Minim

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Re: shootout: implementing an interpreter for a simple procedural language Minim

Matthias Blume

2007-07-30, 4:14 am

Raffael Cavallaro
<raffaelcavallaro@pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-mac.com> writes:

> partially known range of inputs -> combination of human interactive
> and algorithmic processing -> unpredictable range of outputs
>
>
> If this is the future of computing, then the focus on static typing is
> a massive effort in solving the wrong problem.

I, for one, think that research in static typing is exactly the
/right/ effort. In my experience (and I do have experience with both
paradigms), I find it easier and faster to perform "exploratory"
programming with a static type system to help me along.

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