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On 11/29/2011 05:51 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
> How to do high level stuff?
> - python?
>

One of the disadvantages of the various scripting languages is the lack
of static type checking, which makes it harder to do full sweeps of the
source for API changes, relying on the compiler to catch type (or other)
errors.

On the other hand, the statically typed languages usually have more
boilerplate.  Since one of the goals is to simplify things, this
indicates the need for a language with type inference.

On the third hand, languages with type inferences are still immature
(golang?), so we probably need to keep this discussion going until an
obvious choice presents itself.

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