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From: oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] How to explain static typing to other people?
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:45:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130828114527.GA5713@siouxsie> (raw)

Hello,

did you ever get the response, that one could use Java,
when you talked about the static typing advantages of
languages like OCaml or Haskell?

I often heard that and after trying to explain the differences
for a while, I  started to stop the discussion, because the other person
will not understand it. (Maybe it needs to be tried in the real world
to see the differences... discussing about it alone can't work, I guess.)

Here is a talk, that I enjoy(ed) viewing, because it's clearly
showing the advantages of static typing and IMHO this
guy has a lot of humor, making the talk fun to view:

  [ny-haskell] A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing with Brian Hurt
    http://vimeo.com/72870631


Ciao,
   Oliver

             reply	other threads:[~2013-08-28 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-28 11:45 oliver [this message]
2013-08-28 12:18 ` Francois Berenger
2013-08-28 19:25   ` Raoul Duke
2013-08-28 19:40     ` oliver
2013-08-29 14:53 ` Florent Monnier
2013-08-29 16:00 ` Johan Grande

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