Popular conceit about learning programming languages

[Michael Hudson]

"Donn Cave" <donn at drizzle.com> writes:

> | It would seem to me that most or all of the benfits of static typing can be
> | obtained from tools.
> 
> It can't.  In places where the program itself is determined by run time
> inputs - like in the case of the module that's imported that way - your
> tool is of no use.

Of course, such tricks are flat out impossible in a static language, no?

Cheers,
M.

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