Prem Kurian Philip wrote:
If your application is simple, and it is not mission critical, then it is
perhaps useful to go with the line of reasoning that you expound here -
that is to discount errors which "rarely" occur. A compile time warning or
error is definitely a wonderful mechanism to detect errors which might
otherwise be very difficult to detect.
I am no purist - I continue to use languages like Python and Ruby (and onSorry, didn't mean to imply that you're a purist, but I understand your
occassion, groovy), but not for the large scale applications where java /
.net is more suitable.