Steve Freeman

Martin Fowler has stepped into the fray and written about dynamic and static typing. I’m know he understands it, but he hasn’t emphasised the difference I find most significant, the syntax. This has been blogged about quite a few times in recent months, but here’s another one anyway.

The interesting dynamic languages don’t have much […]

Darren Hobbs writes that almost no rewrites have any technical merit. This is often true, but not always. There are many working systems out there which are stable but just too hard to change — which makes them a threat to the survival of the business. All those other reasons that Darren mentions, such as […]