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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by SAI_Peregrinus on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @11:07AM (#37766280)
I'd love a dynamically typed scripting language with the following two properties: no "import" mechanism to split code over multiple files, and no way to execute more than (say) 256 lines of at most 128 bytes each in the file.

Dynamic types are nice for quick & short scripts, and actively detrimental for anything long and complex. Why not enforce that? As soon as it gets so long it doesn't run you know it's time to rewrite in a statically typed language. Instead all existing scripting languages allow unlimited growth in code size, making it easy for programs to grow beyond the point where the language is useful.

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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by gls2ro on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @12:57PM (#37768091)
> Dynamic types are nice for quick & short scripts

A long list of big products and companies are there to disagree with this. I am not saying that dynamic is better or worse. But saying that dynamic languages are only good for quick short scripts is a wrong generalization that has not one exception but many exceptions.

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