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by nine_k
451 days ago
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The point of many scripting languages is quick tinkering, mucking with stuff in a REPL, on top of a complex contraption of already-live objects. This works well with duck typing. It does not work with nice static type inference, because once you change something high upstream, it potentially invalidates everything downstream, your entire current session you've spent an hour building. "Everything should be built top-down, except for the first time" (See #15 in https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html) |
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