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Mar 26, 2015 at 9:32 history protected gnat
Mar 25, 2015 at 13:33 comment added Den "Python is successfully used for large systems" - what is the definition of "success" here? That it mostly runs and produces some result? Is the amount of testing and workforce required included? What about maintainability?
Mar 25, 2015 at 13:26 answer added Cornel Masson timeline score: 4
Mar 25, 2015 at 10:17 comment added Cornel Masson @StevenBurnap: I couldn't agree more regarding the difference between static and strict. Java is another point on the spectrum, being static and too strict. Developers often berate static typing using Java as example, but much of that criticism should actually be directed at Java's overly-strict compiler, not static typing in general. Just look at Scala on the same JVM, which is statically typed, but has much less verbose code due to the fantastic compiler's type-inferencing abilities.
Jul 1, 2014 at 11:28 comment added Daniel Little You should take a look at this programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/221615/…
Jun 30, 2014 at 20:26 comment added JeffO The only thing elegant about javascript is it runs in most browsers.
Jun 30, 2014 at 7:56 answer added vz0 timeline score: 3
Dec 17, 2013 at 10:21 history edited gnat
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Aug 25, 2013 at 0:15 history tweeted twitter.com/#!/StackProgrammer/status/371425490818842625
Aug 24, 2013 at 21:10 answer added gnat timeline score: 44
Aug 24, 2013 at 19:41 answer added Jarrett Meyer timeline score: 1
Aug 24, 2013 at 19:10 answer added Euphoric timeline score: 27
Aug 24, 2013 at 17:24 comment added Mat There's probably something to be said about lifecycle: software that starts in your first category can evolve into the others, "dragging" the language with it.
Aug 24, 2013 at 17:24 comment added user53141 Strict type checking and static type checking aren't the same thing. Python is dynamically typed, but is more strict than C. The advantage of static type checking isn't strictness per se but that types are checked at build time, not run time. I've dealt with many C/C++ issues in my career because of implicit casting.
Aug 24, 2013 at 17:18 history asked Arseni Mourzenko CC BY-SA 3.0