> Static+strong typing is a nice combination, which is probably what hacker_9 meant to say. That's a rather generous interpretation, given that hacker_9 said n

> Static+strong typing is a nice combination, which is probably what hacker_9 meant to say. That's a rather generous interpretation, given that hacker_9 said nothing about strong types, and instead made a claim about static vs. dynamic languages. I do agree with your assertion, though; learning Haskell and OCaml prepared me for writing Python in ways that many of my peers in the Python community are unprepared. One big example is the difference between str and bytes in Python 3: a lot of Pythonistas find this distinction an annoyance, but I find it extremely useful, largely because I learned how to leverage such type differences to reduce errors from ML family languages.