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Language Fermentation

[Posted May 13, 2003 by cook]

Tim Bray writes about language fermentation, and compares strongly and weakly typed languages. "C, C++, Java, C#, R.I.P.? Thus the big question: if the strong-typing advantages of conventional compiled programming languages are moot, do we really need them? In 2020, will everyone be a Python programmer?"

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Posted May 15, 2003 8:22 UTC (Thu) by kunitz (subscriber, #3965) [Link]

Small Comment to the text: C99 allows to use variable declarations
inside a block as in C++. It's the default mode now for gcc.

Language Fermentation

Posted May 22, 2003 12:31 UTC (Thu) by aurelien (guest, #11071) [Link]

When will people learn ? Python, CommonLisp are dynamically typed AND strongly typed languages. C, C++, Java are STATICALLY typed programming languages, which doesn't imply at all they are any "stronger" than, say, Python. In fact the opposite is quite true (let's talk about Java's awfull collections classes).