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List:       haskell
Subject:    RE: advice wanted on GUI design patterns
From:       "Frank A. Christoph" <christo () nextsolution ! co ! jp>
Date:       1999-10-01 7:13:20
Message-ID: 000801bf0bdd$be818360$0150ebca () nextsolution ! co ! jp
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> > I found this bold statement from their top page amusing:
> >
> >   If you want to build robust, scalable, complex _and yet exciting_
software
> >   then you need to use pure object-oriented programming techniques.
> >   [emphasis mine]
>
> Personally, I am a strong advocate of dynamic, rather than static, typing
in
> a programming language. In my experience dynamic type sytems do not
decrease
> the overall reliability of a system but, if anything, they improve it. In
> addition, the dynamic typing in Smalltalk allows the software creation
> process to be more, well ... dynamic. To my mind it's more enjoyable
because
> of this (and who say's we shouldn't enjoy building software).
> Anyway, there are enough USENET debates of this dynamic vs static
> debate so I won't bring it up further here.

You are quite right (about usenet debates). I deserve some ribbing over that
post and now I rather regret posting it. It was mostly the wording on that
web page, not the content, which raised my ire and unfortunately it got the
better of me.

You have my humble apologies.

--FC




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