http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP25

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Jan 2 13:58:11 PST 2015


On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 10:55:21PM +0100, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 1/2/15, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> > (The reason dynamically typed languages are enduringly popular is
> > that it is easier to write code in them. People are inherently
> > lazy.)
> 
> Considering how much time one has to spend scratching their head what
> type of a variable something is in Python, I think the *true slackers*
> prefer statically typed languages. One hit of the compile button and
> if it works you're 99% done already. :)

Yeah, I think dynamically-typed languages lost a bit of their edge in
terms of catering to programmer laziness when statically-typed languages
started introducing type inference.


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