Few things to dynamic language proponents…

1. Any experienced software developers absolutely DOES NOT have to write a large project in a language to acquire a strongly rooter opinion about said language. Reading a...]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:49:49 -0500 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:49:49 -0500 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:49:49 -0500 Jan 28, 2008 Erik Engbrecht 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48180 Did Bruce Tate's team see this five time increase in productivity for the rest of his team as well? How big is that team? What is their background? (actually, I suspect that most people who praise dynamic languages tend to work alone on...]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:20:35 -0500 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:20:35 -0500 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:20:35 -0500 Jan 28, 2008 Eivind Eklund 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48180

Not free. Comes for the cost of making the core codebase somewhat in excess of 3x larger in a statically typed language[1].
[1] That's my rough experience of size between Ruby and Java; Ruby is about .5-.7 the size again of...]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:10:50 -0500 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:10:50 -0500 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:10:50 -0500 Jan 28, 2008 Eivind Eklund 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48180 Few things to dynamic language proponents…

1. Any experienced software developers absolutely DOES NOT have to write a large project in a language to acquire a strongly rooter opinion about said language. Reading a book or...]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:59:04 -0500 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:59:04 -0500 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 04:59:04 -0500 Jan 28, 2008 Eivind Eklund 1 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48180 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:06:58 -0500 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:06:58 -0500 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:06:58 -0500 Jan 28, 2008 Steve Tekell 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48180 I like Rails a lot, see this article that I wrote a while ago.

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Something to laugh about: I have the current VS.Net Magazine. One of the articles is about new features in VS.Net 2008. One of the features is that it will generate your test code. LOL.

Hey, exactly like...]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:42:30 -0500 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:42:30 -0500 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:42:30 -0500 Jan 27, 2008 Mark N 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48180 Why doesn't VS.Net 2008 just go right ahead a write the code too LOL!

I take it that you don't like Rails.

Manifest (static) types...]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:34:00 -0500 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:34:00 -0500 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:34:00 -0500 Jan 27, 2008 Paul Beckford 0 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48180 ...]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:03:16 -0500 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:03:16 -0500 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 12:03:16 -0500 Jan 27, 2008 Cedric Beust 2 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48180

Something to laugh about: I have the current VS.Net Magazine. One of the articles is about new features in VS.Net 2008. One of the features is that it will generate your test code. LOL.

Hey, exactly like...]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:29:17 -0500 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:29:17 -0500 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 06:29:17 -0500 Jan 27, 2008 Paul Beckford 3 http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=48180 Something to laugh about: I have the current VS.Net Magazine. One of the articles is about new features in VS.Net 2008. One of the features is that it will generate your test code. LOL.