You might indeed, but you'd have to go out of your way. Whereas with Python I write those bugs as easily as I breathe. Maybe I'm just a bad programmer; static t

You might indeed, but you'd have to go out of your way. Whereas with Python I write those bugs as easily as I breathe. Maybe I'm just a bad programmer; static types are definitely good for those like me. If that's not a practical, non-ivory tower reason to prefer Haskell, I don't know what is!