Comments on: Languages and speed of development http://blog.go4teams.com/archives/languages-and-speed-of-development/33 What I Read; What I Have Read; and stuff I pick up and drag along Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:31:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0 by: Daniel Tietze http://blog.go4teams.com/archives/languages-and-speed-of-development/33#comment-21 Mon, 22 May 2006 13:25:52 +0000 http://blog.go4teams.com/archives/languages-and-speed-of-development/33#comment-21 Michael -- thanks for the pointers. I'll be sure to print the articles out and read them tonight. Michiel -- I don't understand Ruby enough to follow these short examples. But from what I understand, this will only give me runtime checking, does not really make types a part of the language definition or class model and is little more than a macro for runtime "asserts" which check the types of the arguments. Or am I missing something? Michael — thanks for the pointers. I’ll be sure to print the articles out and read them tonight.

Michiel — I don’t understand Ruby enough to follow these short examples. But from what I understand, this will only give me runtime checking, does not really make types a part of the language definition or class model and is little more than a macro for runtime “asserts” which check the types of the arguments. Or am I missing something?

]]> by: Michiel de Mare http://blog.go4teams.com/archives/languages-and-speed-of-development/33#comment-20 Mon, 22 May 2006 12:19:52 +0000 http://blog.go4teams.com/archives/languages-and-speed-of-development/33#comment-20 But the nice thing about dynamic languages is that you can add this yourself. See for instance this article on adding type checking in Ruby: http://erikveenstra.nl/monitorfunctions/index.html#5.1.0 But the nice thing about dynamic languages is that you can add this yourself. See for instance this article on adding type checking in Ruby:

http://erikveenstra.nl/monitorfunctions/index.html#5.1.0

]]> by: Michael Schlenker http://blog.go4teams.com/archives/languages-and-speed-of-development/33#comment-19 Mon, 22 May 2006 08:40:04 +0000 http://blog.go4teams.com/archives/languages-and-speed-of-development/33#comment-19 Did you ever read the Ousterhout paper on scripting languages? http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html It really explains what niche you should fill with dynamic languages, and which niche should be done with typed/system languages. The power of current dynamic languages moves the border somewhat in the direction of the dynamic languages. Also nice reading: http://www.equi4.com/moam/doomed.html Did you ever read the Ousterhout paper on scripting languages?
http://www.tcl.tk/doc/scripting.html

It really explains what niche you should fill with dynamic languages, and which niche should be done with typed/system languages.

The power of current dynamic languages moves the border somewhat in the direction of the dynamic languages.

Also nice reading:
http://www.equi4.com/moam/doomed.html

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