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Re:The End of Dynamic Languages by ZLeviathan on Monday November 23, 2015 @10:12PM (#10618939)
Totally agreed, using dynamic languages, all became a guessing game, everyone is guessing, the IDE is guessing, the programmer is guessing what's inside this variable?
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Re:The End of Dynamic Languages by lispm on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @03:58AM (#10626171)
Strange. I'm just asking the Lisp system:

    CL-USER 1 > (class-of *standard-output*)
    #<STANDARD-CLASS EDITOR::RUBBER-STREAM 40E035A2E3>
Oh, the class of the value of

    *standard-output*
is EDITOR:RUBBER-STREAM... From there I can find the source, find the applicable methods, the slots, the super classes...
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Re:The End of Dynamic Languages by scotty79 on Tuesday November 24, 2015 @04:57AM (#10619964)
With declared types programmer is still guessing the meaning and IDE doesn't care anymore.

I think that's the reason dynamic languages work because guessing types is easy for people. Guessing meaning is the hard part.

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