What is Expressiveness in a Computer Language

[Raffael Cavallaro]

On 2006-06-16 11:29:12 -0400, Raffael Cavallaro 
<raffaelcavallaro at pas-d'espam-s'il-vous-plait-mac.com> said:

> In software like this it isn't worth satisfying a static type checker 
> because you don't get much of the benefit 
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> as being able to run and test portions of a program before other parts 
> are written (forward references to as yet nonexistent functions).

I don't what bizarre key combination I accidentally hit here, but the 
original read:

In software like this it isn't worth satisfying a static type checker 
because you don't get much of the benefit anyway and it means forgoing 
such advantages of dynamic typing as being able to run and test 
portions of a program before other parts are written (forward 
references to as yet nonexistent functions).