Re: Truly later thinking...Honey, grab me another beer

Walden H. Leverich wrote:

I agree completely. My preference would be for strongly typed languages
as the "standard" with loosely typed sprinkled in where it made sense. I
wasn't trying to argue in favor of using loosely typed in the enterprise
as a whole.

Yup. I just like to make sure we're being precise :). There are people that might take your original comment and spin it to mean "replace RPG with PHP". Not on this list, of course, but there are some bad people out there <grin>.

I was referring to dynamic languages more than loosely typed ones, but
for example, commissions. Yes, I know these problems can be solved in
static languages, we do it all the time today, but there have been times
(not tons but some) where I've said to myself, "damn, I wish I could
just store this formula as data and evaluate it at runtime." I had the
same issue dealing w/retirement system calculations.

Oh man, sales forecasting is one serious place for this stuff. I remember working on the math for various forecasting formulae in RPG III - not something I'd wish on my worst enemy.

Joe