The Industry choice

[Peter Dembinski]

"Donn Cave" <donn at drizzle.com> writes:

[...]

> For me, the effect is striking.  I pound out a little program,
> couple hundred lines maybe, and think "hm, guess that's it" and save
> it to disk.  Run the compiler, it says "no, that's not it - look 
> at line 49, where this expression has type string but context 
> requires list string."  OK, fix that, iterate.

I believe program-specific unit tests are more effective than compiler
typechecking :)