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They may not have "a mental model of statically typed languages," but they sure "agonize" when there are eight different incompatible datatypes that represent a
by DanielMcLaury 6y ago
They may not have "a mental model of statically typed languages," but they sure "agonize" when there are eight different incompatible datatypes that represent a datetime and the library functions they want to use don't even specify which of these they take or return.
- fulafel 6y agoIt's true that compulsory static typing can mitigate documentation bugs. But the effect isn't significant in the programming beginner experience.