Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call minutes for November 29

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Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 11/29/2011 05:51 PM, Juan Quintela wrote:
>> How to do high level stuff?
>> - python?
>>
>
> One of the disadvantages of the various scripting languages is the lack
> of static type checking, which makes it harder to do full sweeps of the
> source for API changes, relying on the compiler to catch type (or other)
> errors.
>
> On the other hand, the statically typed languages usually have more
> boilerplate.  Since one of the goals is to simplify things, this
> indicates the need for a language with type inference.
>
> On the third hand, languages with type inferences are still immature
> (golang?), so we probably need to keep this discussion going until an
> obvious choice presents itself.

I wouldn't call ML immature.  But I wouldn't call it a scripting
language, either.
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