> Static typing is a very bad software development practice. There are a lot of other software development practices that are superior to it. Can you give some

> Static typing is a very bad software development practice. There are a lot of other software development practices that are superior to it. Can you give some examples for these supposedly superior techniques? > "help you in refactoring" It's a terrible way to refactor your code. Could you explain why you think so? Say I'm changing the name of an attribute. Why is using static typing to find the places I have to change terrible? > "There is no way around verifying your assumptions about types" Yes, there are. There are many many ways to do this that do a lot better job than static typing. Static typing is known to be terrible at eliminating bugs from code. I didn't say what you think I said, since I didn't touch on static typing in this. Want to try responding to my actual argument?