Stevey's Blog Rants: Dynamic Languages Strike Back - The Diigo Meta page

• 18 Apr 09
  

  ajinkya kulkarni
• 14 Apr 09
  

  charles edwards

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• 20 Feb 09
  

  Rolf B
  • And yet: any sufficiently large Java or C++ system has health checks, monitoring, it opens sockets with listeners so you can ping it programmatically; you can get, you know, debuggers, you can get remote debuggers attached to it; it's got logging, it's got profiling... it's got this long list of things that you need because the static type system failed.
  • everybody thinks about performance wrong
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  • • It's amazing what you can talk yourself into liking, which is the real irony of all this.
    • Small systems are not only easier to optimize, they're possible to optimize. And I mean globally optimize.
    • some would say the complexity of writing Scheme macros is roughly on the order of writing a complex higher-order procedure. It's not much harder. A well thought out macro system is not a hard thing to use
    • ompilers generate better assembly code
    • I mean, to where I came away going Oh My God, threads are irreparably busted. I don't know what to do about it.
    • And the weird thing is, I realized early in my career that I would actually rather have a runtime error than a compile error
    • Another thing about C++ is that the major compilers are full of bugs
    • I'm really coming around to the nothing-shared models. I think things wind up fundamentally more scalable (across machines) if you begin with that model.
    • No, they don't. Type correctness merely guarantees that you're not asking something from a representation that it can't do.
      
      That's a long way from program correctness.
      
      And, since static languages tend to have something other than "duck typing", your representations are more brittle than they could be.
• 27 Aug 08
  

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• 11 Aug 08
  

  Jochen Lillich

  A talk on dynamic languages: the tools, the performance, the history, the religion, everything.

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• 10 Jul 08
  

  Tim Goh

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• 14 Jun 08
  

  Geraldo Medrano

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• 11 Jun 08
  

  Christian Winkler

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• 30 May 08
  

  Mike Hostetler

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• 26 May 08
  

  Thiago Freire

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• 24 May 08
  

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• 19 May 08
  

  Stanton Teters

  A transcription of a talk Steve Yegge gave (with a link to the video) about dynamic languages, and JavaScript in particular.

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• 13 May 08
  

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• 12 May 08
  

  Klaus Kämpf

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  Gord Broom

  another loooong, but good, look at the dynamic v. static language war

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