[SDL] Off-Topic: Quake II Ported to HTML5

[Paulo Pinto]

There is where any dynamic language fan will tell you to write proper unit
tests.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Mason Wheeler <masonwheeler at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I dunno about that.  I mean, the whole reason we use typing at all is
> so that *we* can keep things straight.  The compiler is a computer
> program with gigabytes of memory available.  It can hold a whole lot
> more details in its head at once than any human being, where we're
> restricted to "7 plus or minus 2".  If you throw away 90% of the type
> signatures, what happens when someone else (or you, a year later)
> comes back to it and tries to figure out what sort of data this code
> is using?
>
>
>
> >----- Original Message ----
> >From: Brian Barrett <brian.ripoff at gmail.com>
> >Subject: Re: [SDL] Off-Topic: Quake II Ported to HTML5
> >
> >I can't wait until inferred typing becomes more popular in mainstream
> >languages. I mean useful inferred typing, where maybe 10% of the code
> >has explicit type signatures and the compiler deduces the rest from
> >use, not like the "var" keyword C# (though I don't know if they've
> >extended this in more recent updates to the language).
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