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Re:Why I don’t like Dynamic Typing by bunderbunder on Saturday February 25, 2012 @11:28AM (#3633237)
C# has supported dynamic typing since version 4.0.

At this point it doesn't make much sense to say that C# is strictly anything. It's perhaps the most obsessively multi-paradigm language out there.

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Re:Why I don’t like Dynamic Typing by lucisferre on Saturday February 25, 2012 @11:33AM (#3633245)
Ugh, `dynamic` doesn't provide the benefits of a dynamically typed language by long, long way, and yes I've used it extensively. But thanks for the downvote all the same.

http://wekeroad.com/2010/08/09/csharps-new-clothes/

In case you plan on skimming that and missing the details the tl;dr is that Rob, pushes `dynamic` as far as he can and it still comes up far short of the extensibility and expressiveness of Ruby constructs.

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Re:Why I don’t like Dynamic Typing by bwarp on Saturday February 25, 2012 @01:56PM (#3633552)
Upvoted. Spot on. It's nowhere near as dynamic as a basic dynamic language. So much so that I just don't bother with dynamic in C# (I also don't bother with nullable types and a load of other features as well but that's another story).

However, I don't find that a problem. I tend to prefer the correctness of statically typed languages these days.

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