it may be useful to curate newsgroup posts

[weaselcat via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 21:48:33 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2015 at 20:48:59 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
> wrote:
>> Please kill me now. Dynamic typing is almost always a 
>> _horrible_ idea.
> <snip>
>
> I liked this post very much.  I remember thinking how superior 
> BBC Basic was to other languages for forcing you to declare 
> variables.  (I know the question is not technically only about 
> this, but the philosophical tone is similar).  And what a shock 
> it was to travel back in time when I learnt python...
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_BASIC
>
> Should this be turned into a wiki post?  Maybe the main section 
> relating to why D does things a certain way?  Or maybe an 
> opinionated section where there are articles that don't 
> represent the official D stance.
>
> In general there is lots of hidden gold in newsgroup posts that 
> is not always easy to find.  Curating this might help others 
> down the line.  I can do a little, but not that much as I have 
> certain constraints and other things I should be focusing on.

python being an unmaintainable mess is the reason go even exists.
dynamic typing is dead.