6 May 2003

06May2003

Short Attention Span

By carlfish on

After eight years of being an Internet nerd, I've finally completely lost the ability to concentrate on one thing at a time.

06May2003

Weighing into the Static vs Dynamic Typing Debate

By carlfish on

Static typing is declarative. Testing is procedural. Thus, when your program fails through types, the exact location of the error can be immediately ascertained: it's the point at which your type declaration becomes untrue. When your program fails a regular test, you only find the point at which the testing procedure detects the resulting misbehaviour.

06May2003

Quote of the day

By carlfish on

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. ---Ripley, in Aliens.