Darren New wrote:

>> Of course, much as I like Smalltalk, the lack of static typing makes 
>> it really hard to use. [...] but *good luck* figuring out where the 
>> _problem_ is. The
>> call stack only shows you where the problem get _detected_.
> 
> You know, I did my PhD work by patching into someone else's structured 
> editor/compiler/interpreter written Smalltalk, without really 
> understanding all the details. I had this kind of error maybe a handful 
> of times, and it was never confusing what happened.

Apparently I'm strange. For me, this is *the* most common class of 
errors. (After silly things like typos, at least.) And having to track 
down and fix these problems manually seems so tedious when a properly 
designed system would have told me exactly what to fix before I even 
finished compiling.

>> As soon as you start trying to do anything more sophisticated than 
>> that, scripting languages become inadaquate.
> 
> I disagree.

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