The thing most programmers forget: We don't spend most of our time writing generic libraries. We don't write generic code, nor do we want to. We write code t

The thing most programmers forget: We don't spend most of our time writing generic libraries. We don't write generic code, nor do we want to. We write code that takes specific inputs, and generates specific outputs. So I want to use statically typed languages, maybe with a template system at MOST. If it makes my life more difficult when I write a library, I accept that. Source: LISP programmer for 6 years. Learned the above the hard way.