Eloquently sums up my feelings about the disadvantages of dynamic typing

[Walter Bright]

On 10/16/2013 8:37 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
> I'm reasonably okay with dynamic languages so long as you can require a
> variable to be declared before it's used.  Those that implicitly declare on
> first assignment are a nightmare however. I once spent an entire day
> debugging a Lua app that turned out to be broken because of a typo in an
> assignment. Never again.

Implicit declaration is such a bad idea; I wonder why it keeps reappearing in 
every new dynamic language du jour.