Oh, and here's a pretty good comment on the article regarding static vs dynamic typing:
eamonnerbonne Thursday, September 13 2012
It’s a night and day difference. Let me try a writing
analogy with Word + Notepad.
Say you’re trying to write a text for a particularly
picky client that will reject your text if you make any
mistake or use any unclear phrase. Then dynamic typing is
like Notepad: you better be careful, have lots of
proofreaders, and expect to have your text rejected
often. And when you print it, it’s in a slow-to-read
monospaced font.
Static typing is like Word with all the grammar checking
turned up to 11 (it won’t let you print or email any text
with what it thinks is an error). It’s harder to learn,
and sometimes your PC runs slowly, and the grammar
checker will find lots of irrelevant stuff, and to keep
it happy you might need to change your style, but it
*will* make certain types of error irrelevant (e.g.
spelling), and occasionally catch more complicated
mistakes too. Also, as a bonus that might or might not be
relevant, word prints in a font you can read much more
quickly.
The point being: they’re totally different ways of doing
things.
