Interview at Lang.NEXT

[dennis luehring via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Am 05.06.2014 11:42, schrieb Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce:
> if(cond)
>      var = "hello world";
> else
>      var = 42;
>
> The fact that an if statement could change the type of a variable is just
> atrocious IMHO. Maybe I've just spent too much of my time in statically typed
> languages, but I just do not understand the draw that dynamically typed
> languages have for some people. They seem to think that avoiding a few simple
> things that you have to do in your typical statically typed language is
> somehow a huge improvement when it causes them so many serious problems that
> static languages just don't have.

maybe some sort of misunderstanded generic style
of programming in prior D times :)