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Re: Migrating a system incrementally. Was: Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing (big advant

Alan Balmer

2004-07-23, 3:58 pm

On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 23:59:03 -0500, Robert C. Martin
<unclebob@objectmentor.com> wrote:

>On 22 Jul 2004 01:38:05 -0700, oliver@plohmann.com (Oliver Plohmann)
>wrote:
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>
>I've never seen anyone make that argument before. It's certainly
>quite different from my own experience. Perhaps it's just different
>strokes for different folks.

You must remember that we non-xtreme programmers do not deliberately
produce lousy code just for the pleasure of Refactoring it. We still
believe in the old-fashioned notion of knowing what it is you're
trying to do and getting it right the first time.
>
>
>True. But IME the cost of the static typing outweighs that
>difference.

Cost? Do you mean the extra 10 milliseconds of build time, or lack of
design flexibility, or what?

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Al Balmer
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