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Comment on Is Strong Typing really needed? by Dmitry Nikolaev

Dmitry Nikolaev — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:53:52 +0000

Generally, you want say that java is more verbose. Java required more lines of code. But I think this is what we may train. Our perception of code. It very (very) easy achieve, if you adopt your IDE setting for you (typography). This make reading of code more easier!

Comment on Is Strong Typing really needed? by Misko Hevery

Misko Hevery — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:38:58 +0000

Glad you are coming around.

Comment on Is Strong Typing really needed? by Philip Peitsch

Philip Peitsch — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:17:55 +0000

Not all those features are restricted to dynamic languages. C# implements Closures / Functions (lambda expressions and delegates are the terms used).

It sounds like a lot of your issues with static typing are with Java’s implementation… I’d definitely encourage you to look at some alternative statically typed languages if you can. I think that Java (though definitely a useful language), does a lot to make static typing painful. This is coming from someone who grew up on Java through Uni, then had to do a stack of development in C#. I still use both languages on a regular basis… but C# is definitely more “fun” to use due to some of the improvements made.

Comment on Is Strong Typing really needed? by Graham Fawcett

Graham Fawcett — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:34:19 +0000

It’s “static typing” you’re talking about, not “strong typing”. You can have a dynamic, strongly-typed language. Python is one of many examples.

I’d avoid talking about ’strong typing’ because it’s ambiguous — it means very different things to different people.

Regarding your subpoints: neither strong nor static typing prevents (or enables) the use of closures: that’s entirely orthogonal to types.

Comment on Is Strong Typing really needed? by Shyam

Shyam — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:13:09 +0000

I have played around with Scala enough to say I think its a great improvement over Java in many cases. But I haven’t used it for long periods of time to have strong opinions about the things I like or don’t like. But I love the concepts of val vs var, where making things immutable is easy and almost like the default option. Mixins are awesome as well.

Comment on Is Strong Typing really needed? by Mark

Mark — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 23:08:16 +0000

What are your thoughts on something in between like scala where its strongly typed but the verbosity is similar to that of a dynamic language.

Comment on Super fast JS Testing by Varun

Varun — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:49:09 +0000

Hi,

I installed the plugin in eclipse Galileo yesterday (the latest stable release) . Although, it installed without any issues and i can see it installed through the Help window. there is no js ts driver “view”. No trace of any change to eclipse. What is happening?

Comment on Time and Again by Sid

Sid — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:42:21 +0000

Good writing dude, you keep getting better at it.

Although, carrying the gun in the TM was a give way. I would take it out.

Cheers.

Comment on Using Tracker for Agile projects by Priyank

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Comment on Using Tracker for Agile projects by Priyank

Priyank — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:46:29 +0000

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