Mailinglist Archive: yast-devel (51 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Benji Weber <b.weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [Sep 14. 2007 15:16]:
> On 14/09/2007, Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Slower YaST, more errors that appear during the runtime instead of the
> > compile-time. That's also why I prefer writing modules in YCP to writing
> > them in Perl.
> 
> Hear hear, I tire of all the perl/python/ruby hype. Testing is not a
> substitute for verification. Sure YCP may be archaic & tiresome, but
> it's not as bad as the others.

YCP was worse before we introduced static type checking.

I agree with you that 'dynamically/loosely typed' languages are
bad -- if one approaches them the traditional way where testing
is considered optional bloat.

My experience with e.g. Ruby is, that dynamic typing is really
nice, provided(!) your testsuite has an almost 100% code coverage.


Klaus

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