Interview at Lang.NEXT

[Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 12:46:24 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> I don't know, but the only language I've used with no static 
> types that made me comfortable was Common Lisp. That was a long 
> time ago, but I think it was the ease of manually testing the 
> code in a REPL that did it. Obviously today I'd write unit 
> tests anyway.
>
> Atila

There are languages with good static type systems (OCaml, F#, 
Scala, to name a few) that have REPLs as well, and they're quite 
useful there too.

I'm fond of Lisp, and I think Lisp macros are very powerful and 
useful. I like Python's (really ISWIM's) indentation sensitive 
syntax. But, as someone who uses 'dynamically typed' languages 
daily, I think static typing is a huge win and don't understand 
why anyone would not want to use a language with static types, 
especially if they were mostly inferred and so the annotation 
burden was minimal. ML is the language of the future ;-)