Re: Recommended books on Top Down Design

From: bazad (nobody_at_noreply.not)
Date: 11/10/04 

Date: 09 Nov 2004 15:59:03 -0800

"Phlip" <phlip_cpp@yahoo.com> writes:

> Mike Pro wrote:
>
> > I've been practicing Pascal at college for the last 3 months now, I was
> > wondering if anyone could suggest some good books or url's regarding TDD
> or
> > screen layout design...
[snip]
> Curiously, the higher level your code, the
> more dynamic typing you need. Dynamic typing means that foo.bar() will
> compile and execute no matter what type 'foo' is, so long as it has a method
> 'bar()'.
[snip]
> ...while high-level code, such as GUI code or business-logic code,
> typically must bend over backwards to provide dynamic typing.

I am not trying to start put Smalltalk/Ruby family against C++/Java/C#.

Could you show the connection between the higher level code and the
need for the dynamic typing.

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