> You being pretty forgiving by addressing only the point > that Achilleas wants to argue. > > What he keeps avoiding is addressing the other parts of > our argument. Most of the life of an application will be > spent in maintenance and I believe that most of the cost > of an application is in maintenance and enhancements.
Dynamic typing can make maintenance faster: you run the program, you pause it, you modify it, and when the results are satisfactory, you run the tests and if the tests are successful you release the code.