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A comment on Dynamically Typed Languages (2009).

Re:Dynamically Typed Languages (2009) by CmonDev on Thursday August 21, 2014 @03:58AM (#8206328)
It seems the consensus is to try and avoid them where possible:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/53878/dynamic...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/10032/dynamic...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/246762/is-the...

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Re:Dynamically Typed Languages (2009) by djur on Thursday August 21, 2014 @05:07AM (#8206507)
None of those three links suggest a consensus against dynamically-typed languages. All of them feature highly-rated arguments in favor of such languages. How can you even begin to suggest a "consensus" from such a basis?
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Re:Dynamically Typed Languages (2009) by mkesper on Thursday August 21, 2014 @04:48AM (#8206475)
Depends on whom you ask, I'd say. These questions don't seem to be unbiased.
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