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Achilleas Margaritis

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Re: Programming with "Duh" Typing Posted: Jul 31, 2007 6:34 AM
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> 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.

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