This study starts with a bizarre premise. I've never heard anyone, ever suggest that statically typed languages make initially writing a program faster. Very

This study starts with a bizarre premise. I've never heard anyone, ever suggest that statically typed languages make initially writing a program faster. Very much the opposite, java apologists claim that their slower development time is offset by easier maintenance and less bugs, explicitly acknowledging that initial development is slower in a java-esque static language. Of course, the static typing proponents you find on HN are generally not advocating incredibly limited type systems like java or the one used in this "study". I find it hard to believe that a language with such a limited type system is representative of languages with useful type systems like ocaml or haskell.