Re:Things I Was Wrong About: Types
by pmontra on Sunday September 27, 2020 @05:42PM
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I started with C and some Pascal. Then Java and Perl. Then JavaScript, then Ruby, then Python, then Elixir.
The great thing of Java was garbage collection. No more malloc/free hell and programs still worked.
The great thing about Perl and the other scripting languages was no type declaration (plus garbage collection.) And programs still worked.
After 30 years I kind of agree with the author of the OP: the time lost annotating programs with types of not offset by the benefits. In almost all cases type discovery is something the computer should do, not me. Same as for memory management: automatic, not manual.
The great thing of Java was garbage collection. No more malloc/free hell and programs still worked.
The great thing about Perl and the other scripting languages was no type declaration (plus garbage collection.) And programs still worked.
After 30 years I kind of agree with the author of the OP: the time lost annotating programs with types of not offset by the benefits. In almost all cases type discovery is something the computer should do, not me. Same as for memory management: automatic, not manual.