Re: Static vs. Dynamic typing (big advantage or not)---WAS: c.programming: OOP and memory management

From: Robert Strandh (strandh_at_labri.fr)
Date: 08/19/04 

Date: 19 Aug 2004 07:39:01 +0200

Programmer Dude <Chris@Sonnack.com> writes:

> Jeff Brooks writes:
>
> > I think its goes beyond that. People will not present any information
> > that proves they are wrong in any way. Also, they will not try to
> > understand anything that could prove them wrong.
>
> "Ordinary" people perhaps. Not people interested in knowledge and
> learning. (You seem to be singing another verse of the same old
> song: "People don't agree with my wonderful point of view, so they
> must be wrong." Maybe they're not wrong and simply don't see it
> your way.)

While that might be the case sometimes, the phenomenon described by
Jeff Brooks is well known to psychologists. For a layman version, see

  http://dept-info.labri.fr/~strandh/Essays/psychology.html

Another psychological phenomenon related to this is known as
"cognitive dissonance". Google came up with this reference:

  http://www.dmu.ac.uk/~jamesa/learning/dissonance.htm 

-- 
Robert Strandh
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