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

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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