Can you say "qwak"? OK, then fly.
This morning, I was at a language symposium that's taking place on the Microsoft campus. Many language gurus are there, Anders is doing the keynote, so it's definitely a place where you can learn a thing or two. Many of the talks are about dynamic languages and how to implement them in the CLR, and as usual, you can see the usual duck-typing quote on all slide decks: "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck." Really, folks, I don't know about that. While I generally like dynamic languages and the trend they represent, I've always been extremely uneasy about that, and what's more I don't think it's a necessary outcome of using a dynamic language. First, we don't know that it
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