[erlang-questions] Erlang/YAWS vs Free Pascal/Xitami

[Michael Campbell]

J wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Michael Campbell
> <michael.campbell@REDACTED> wrote:
>>  I see this charge levied often, but have YET to see a single blog post, nor
>>  talk to anyone who actually codes in a dynamic language point to a single
>>  "difficult to track" bug that was due to a mis-used type.
> 
> This is a "toy" example, but in Perl I made this mistake (again) just yesterday:
> 
> my $thing = get_somestuff(...);
> 
> And of course it really needed to be my ($thing) or my @thing or my
> (@thing). "Difficult to track" is relative, but by the time this all
> bubbled up into a failure it took a silly amount of time to identify
> (a half hour or an hour).

What did perl -w say?