Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

Remi Vanicat vanicat+invalid at labri.fr
Thu Oct 23 10:52:49 EDT 2003


Pascal Costanza <costanza at web.de> writes:

> Joachim Durchholz wrote:
>> Pascal Costanza wrote:
>>
>>> Ralph Becket wrote:
>>>
>>>> I fail to see how dynamic typing can confer any kind of advantage here.
>>>
>>> Read the literature on XP.
>> Note that most literature contrasts dynamic typing with the static
>> type systems of C++ and/or Java. Good type systems are /far/ better.
>
> You are changing topics here.
>
> In a statically typed language, when I write a test case that calls a
> specific method, I need to write at least one class that implements at
> least that method, otherwise the code won't compile.

Not in ocaml.
ocaml is statically typed.

-- 
Rémi Vanicat




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