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[Robin Munn]

Steve Williams <stevewilliams at wwc.com> wrote:
> http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=63521&threshold=5&commentsort=0&tid=156&mode=thread&cid=5909464
> 
> ...
> Realizing this has real implications for software design. It means that 
> a programming language should, above all, be malleable. A programming 
> language is for thinking of programs, not for expressing programs you've 
> already thought of. It should be a pencil, not a pen. Static typing 
> would be a fine idea if people actually did write programs the way they 
> taught me to in college. But that's not how any of the hackers I know 
> write programs. We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and 
> smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types 
> balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old 
> aunt of a compiler.
> ...

Original URL for Paul Graham's article quoted above:

    http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html

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