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Re:Do We Create Type Systems In Dynamic Languages? by russell on Monday April 06, 2009 @02:47PM (#549353)
True, but I speak of which I know. If someone has such a comparison, I would love to see it. The real measure is tokens not LOC.
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Re:Do We Create Type Systems In Dynamic Languages? by ankhmoop on Monday April 06, 2009 @02:51PM (#549359)
Then your knowledge may be too constrained to derive sufficiently representative generalizations.

I can highly recommend:

http://www.xoltar.org/old_site/misc/static_typing_eckel.html...

The article (from 2003!) is an excellent treatise on the value of a proper type system as compared to Python, and moreover, how Java's type system (or C++, ...) should simply not be equated with "static typing".

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