> > 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.
That's not a function of dynamic typing but rather having a fully interactive development environment. As far as I know only Smalltalk and Lisp have that.
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