Diminishing returns of static typing

Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by emodendroket on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:52PM (#15386742)

I've been writing PHP for a couple months and I've been pleasantly surprised so I feel like I am moving beyond that.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by girvo on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:18PM (#15388443)

To be fair, PHP 7.1 with Composer is a very different language to PHP 4, for the better of course.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by emodendroket on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:37PM (#15388575)

Yeah, sure, and I was able to avoid the painful years. But C# pre-generics and pre-Linq is a way less appealing language too, you know? Most languages that are popular now look kind of rough to work in several versions ago.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by girvo on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @06:04PM (#15396618)

Oh definitely. I think that’s the case for nearly any language that’s worth the code it’s written in. C++ is an interesting case study in how to do it both right and wrong; we’re spoilt for choice and it keeps getting better every day

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