Thomas,

>I'ld say in java you get more than 95 percent of IDE checking - but there are fringe cases like bad jarpaths, not totally validated installs and of course attempts to write more generic code<g>. But the attempts needed to create an error-free compile are drastically reduced.

Good to know.

>On a RAM-heavy machine with eclipse it is a real helper. Yes, some of that can be used by dynaminc laguages as well, but there the hurdles MUCH higher as they often do do things difficult/extremely verbose in staically typed single inheritance languages.
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>I guess LINT-ing style checking will be needed for enterprize settings in dynamic languages much longer...


Not sure whether I do understand you here. Why is type checking in dynamic langugage much more difficult *if* the type is specified at the declaration at the top ?

Walter,