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The State of the Scripting Universe

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-directing dept.

r.jimenezz writes "Via PragDave's blog I learned of an article by Lynn Greiner on the state of scripting languages, a.k.a. scripting dynamic languages. A number of influential personalities (Guido von Rossum, Damien Conway, PragDave himself and others) were interviewed and it's interesting to see how much their opinions coincide despite being interviewed separately. A lengthy but worthwhile reading."

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  1. What, no comments? by erykjj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I had to refresh a few times and still nothing! Then I tried submitting this and got a 500 server error and thought "Ah, now I understand!".

  2. Humor Impaired by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Flamebait"? As I said here, Slashdoters (or maybe just those with "mod" points) are humor impaired.

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  3. Code Insight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One important advantage of statically typed language is the ability to do code insight... I mean the little pull down menu which pops up as soon as you hit the dot character after a variable name, displaying a list of available methods. This saves you about 80% of the time spent on browsing documentation. As a side effect, it prevents typing errors.

    Also, JBuilder for example supports incremental compiling (i.e. compiling while you type), which immediately detects practically all syntactic errors during input. This means you end up nearly always with a syntactically correct program before you even think of compiling... the problem with scripting languages is that syntax errors (e.g. illegal method calls) only crop up at runtime.