Eloquently sums up my feelings about the disadvantages of dynamic typing

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 15:15:45 Walter Bright wrote:
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1oi8wd/ruby_is_a_dying_language
> /ccs8yr8

I can't possibly like any language where the type of a variable could change 
based on whether the condition in an if statement is true (because a variable 
gets assigned a completely different type depending no the branch of the if 
statement). I've never seen static typing as a burden. Rather, it's finding 
bugs in your program for you.

- Jonathan M Davis