Re: Make sure numbers are numbers

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:19 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> There is also little reason left for not programming everything in
> assembly language.

Ah yes, it's the old macho programmer joke: Strong typing is for
people with weak memories.

I mostly buy into the 'strong tests + dynamic typing is better than
weak tests + static typing' argument (especially if the costs of
static typing are significant) but the problem for larger applications
is that it is harder to understand the structure of dynamic programs.
All that clever stuff that Eclipse does with Java is not possible.

One can obsessively check the types of function arguments, but that
can get a little tiresome without tool support.

steve d.