I'd love to see DScript one day ...

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 15 June 2016 at 08:48:19 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 21:23:38 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 6/14/2016 11:55 AM, Dicebot wrote:
>>
>> I find a typeless language convenient when it's less than one 
>> screen in size. Their advantages fall away when things get 
>> larger. I don't know how people cope with a large project in a 
>> dynamic language.
>
> In the long run the disadvantages of dynamic languages outweigh 
> the advantages. There is the issue of redefining variables and 
> values. It can introduce subtle bugs that are hard to find. You 
> spend a lot of time debugging stuff that would have easily been 
> caught in a static language.
>
> Stuff like this is not uncommon:
>
> `# example.py
> name = "Walter"
> print(name)
> name = ["Walter"]
> if len(name) == 1:
>   print("Your name has length 1")
> `

This isn't related to dynamic typing. It is related to variable 
assignment with implicit declaration and initialization.

Conceptually you would have the same problem in C++ and D since 
they both use duck-typing (e.g. both overloading and templates 
are essentially providing duck-typing).