[Haskell-cafe] Re: How does one get off haskell?

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer at web.de> writes:

> On Friday 18 June 2010 12:31:26, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>> Pete Chown <1 at 234.cx> writes:
>> > One thing I'm curious about is Haskell versus Python or Ruby.  Code in
>> > those languages is, IMO, prone to type related bugs because there is
>> > no compile-time checking.  On the other hand, I would expect the
>> > density' of the code to be similar to Haskell.  You can do a lot of
>> > the same things, although they support an OO programming style too.
>>
>> Haven't you heard?  Enough unit tests give you almost the same security
>> as a good static type system at the expense of more code!
>>
>> Uh, wait, why is that an advantage again? :p
>
> Duh, because it's much faster to develop in a dynamically typed language.
> Writing out all those type signatures costs time. Much more time than 
> writing a few dozen unit tests per function, right?

Of course!  And adding in documentation saying what kind of values are
expected is also just as trivial!

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