Hackers and Painters
May 06, 2003 04:23 PM
Hackers and Painters:
Static typing would be a fine idea if people actually did write programs the way they taught me to in college. But that’s not how any of the hackers I know write programs. We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.
Comments
Perl might work, but I believe the point would be better made with things like Smalltalk, ML, Lisp, Python, etc. where there exists more of a (possibly optional) type system, just not one that is static.
Posted by: kasei on May 7, 2003 03:23 AM
You mean perl?
Posted by: Anonymous on May 7, 2003 02:47 AM