OT: This Swift thing
Steven D'Aprano
steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Fri Jun 6 01:45:27 EDT 2014
On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 01:54:32 +0200, Sturla Molden wrote:
> When is static analysis actually needed and for what purpose? The
> problem seems to be that managers, team leaders, CEOs, or (insert your
> favorite tite), are not qualified to answer this question. So to be on
> the safe side they go for as much static analysis as possible.
Replace "as much as possible" with "the bare minimum provided by the
compiler", and you will be usually right :-)
Managers rarely choose languages like Haskell or Ada(?) where programs
can be provably shown to be correct. They choose languages with just
enough compile-time type checking to get in the way of rapid development,
but not enough to lead to actual correct code.
Some want languages like C that offer type-checking, but not languages
like Pascal and its derivatives which enforce that type-checking --
Pascal is a "bondage and discipline" language, while C lets you escape
from the discipline of types with the freedom of casts and other
dangerous weak-typing features.
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Steven D'Aprano
http://import-that.dreamwidth.org/
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