Eloquently sums up my feelings about the disadvantages of dynamic typing

[PauloPinto]

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 23:53:06 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 03:15:45PM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1oi8wd/ruby_is_a_dying_language/ccs8yr8
>
> It's interesting how compile times seem to always crop up in 
> discussions
> about static vs. dynamic typing, even though it's really an 
> orthogonal
> issue. I think D is a winner in this area (good job with the 
> fast
> compile times, Walter!).
>
>
> T

C and C++ are the ones to blame here.

Before they were ubiquitous, there were already compilers in the 
Pascal family that were quite fast.

Turbo Pascal always compiled within a few seconds and it did 
compile the desired module and all related dependencies.

However many young developers only know C and C++ as languages 
with native compilers, hence the common fallacy compilers are 
slow.

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Paulo