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People who say that interpreted

2015-07-28 21:55:02.740005+02 by Dan Lyke 4 comments

People who say that interpreted languages are just as safe as compiled language with proper test coverage need to check their premises...

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#Comment Re: People who say that interpreted made: 2015-07-30 00:32:52.252773+02 by: TheSHAD0W

[citation needed]

#Comment Re: People who say that interpreted made: 2015-07-30 00:52:13.789193+02 by: Dan Lyke

that "with proper test coverage" bit... I've never seen it. That's where the citation's needed.

(Especially not with existing code. Holy fuck this is one gawdawful mess.)

#Comment Re: People who say that interpreted made: 2015-08-02 14:41:03.946394+02 by: TheSHAD0W

With or without proper test coverage. Why are interpreted languages less safe than compiled ones?

#Comment Re: People who say that interpreted made: 2015-08-03 02:50:02.811597+02 by: Dan Lyke

So the main things I'm seeing are:

Lack of type-checking causing problems when there's not 100% test coverage.
Lack of variable/member name enforcement causing problems with typos (worst with people using straight up Perl hashes for compound types, but I still see screw-ups with the way Python does members).
Lack of static analysis able to give warnings about the code.

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