Re^8: Static typing is mostly a waste of time

I love Perl. You love Perl. Millions of people love and enjoy Perl. It can be used sucessfully for a myriad of different tasks. People can make money using Perl. Perl takes what is good from other languages, and omits the bad. Perl is pragmatic. Perl is popular. Perl is good. But can we admit that any attempt at describing Perl's type system as anything other than an ad-hoc mess is bound to result in inconsistancy and frustration?

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Re^9: Static typing is mostly a waste of time by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Apr 13, 2005 at 18:28 UTC
I think you are right, which is frustrating to me for some reason. shrugs Oh, well. My wife's blog	[reply]
Re^10: Static typing is mostly a waste of time by Anonymous Monk on Apr 13, 2005 at 18:37 UTC
Once you accept it, its actually liberating. Now when you meet someone who complains about Perl not being theoretically pure, you can respond "You're right. But I manage to productive with it anyway." And you can move along to bigger and better things.	[reply]
Re^11: Static typing is mostly a waste of time by adrianh (Chancellor) on Apr 14, 2005 at 10:35 UTC
Now when you meet someone who complains about Perl not being theoretically pure, you can respond "You're right. But I manage to productive with it anyway." Amen. I'd pick being productive over being theoretically pure any day of the week. (that's not to say, of course, that there are not ways to be "pure" and be productive :-)	[reply]