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That's not "empirically false", it's just not empirically true. Static typing is a big boon to software development, and I use Python in my day job.
by weberc2 9y ago
That's not "empirically false", it's just not empirically true. Static typing is a big boon to software development, and I use Python in my day job.
- aidos 9y agoThe OP said "I believe" so obviously we can neither empirically prove or disprove the statement. We can say with absolute certainty that static typing is not required for large codebases, because there are large codebases that are not statically typed.
- chrisseaton 9y agoAre there large codebases that are not statically typed? Yes? Then empirically it is false. > big boon But they argued ‘essential’. You’ve watered that down to nice-to-have.