i agree totally with both parents -- i wanted to comment the same... static typing would more benefit: * large groups of programmers * large codebases * mai

i agree totally with both parents -- i wanted to comment the same... static typing would more benefit: * large groups of programmers * large codebases * maintenance (which is usually taking more resources then the initial development of a large code base) aditionally i've come to believe that not all static typing is created equal. most allow `null` to be returned instead of adhering to the type, then some have exceptions and not many languages type side effects (like IO). i'm basically saying that C/C++/Java/C#'s kind of typing is not Haskell's kind of typing, and that the potential gains from Haskell's type system are much bigger on the long run (while it also comes with a steeper learning curve).