From: Florent Monnier <monnier.florent@gmail.com>
To: oliver <oliver@first.in-berlin.de>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to explain static typing to other people?
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:53:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE1DttD8=QRHvuMq-C-EPe7oG0EMos35=ToQQPgd8frmpBhcow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130828114527.GA5713@siouxsie>
2013/08/28, oliver wrote:
> Hello,
>
> did you ever get the response, that one could use Java,
> when you talked about the static typing advantages of
> languages like OCaml or Haskell?
>
> I often heard that and after trying to explain the differences
> for a while, I started to stop the discussion, because the other person
> will not understand it. (Maybe it needs to be tried in the real world
> to see the differences... discussing about it alone can't work, I guess.)
[...]
sometimes a drawing (or something visual) is better than a long explanation:
http://www.ekobutiks.com/1551-thickbox/jouet-boite-a-formes-classic-goki-jouets-en-bois.jpg
From the beginning I understand the OCaml type system to be something
very similar to this child educational game.
--
Regards
Florent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-29 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-28 11:45 oliver
2013-08-28 12:18 ` Francois Berenger
2013-08-28 19:25 ` Raoul Duke
2013-08-28 19:40 ` oliver
2013-08-29 14:53 ` Florent Monnier [this message]
2013-08-29 16:00 ` Johan Grande
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