Alan Kay's static typing sytem quote...

Jason Johnson jason.johnson.081 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 20:54:45 UTC 2007


 If your exposure is C/C++/Java/C# style weak typing then yes, it's quite awful.

There are much *much* better systems out there, but personally I find
that such a good type system means it's a good while before I have
compiled code I can experiment with.  I think Strongtalk's idea of
adding inferred typing on optionally after the fact is a good one.

On Nov 7, 2007 1:04 AM, Blake <blake at kingdomrpg.com> wrote:
> Thank you, Glen!
>
> That's the one. I think of that every time I sit down to do generics....
>
>
> http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~ram/pub/pub_jf47ht24Ht/doc_kay_oop_en
>
>



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