dynamic classes and duck typing

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dsimcha wrote:
> == Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
>> dsimcha wrote:
>>> Sometimes I feel like there should be a law similar to Greenspun's Law for
> 
> Having never done it before, I really cannot imagine how people get any work done
> in a language that doesn't have either duck typing or good templates.  It's just
> too rigid.  It seems like modern statically typed languages like Java and C# end
> up adding tons of ad-hoc workarounds for lacking either of these as
> well-integrated language features.  The best/worst example is auto-boxing.

Which is why the .NET framework is so bloody huge.
If MS hadn't provided that out of the box in the first version, .NET
would have been a dead duck.

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