I agree there are generally trade offs, that's essentially the results of my "60 pages of pointlessness" paper. If you did have time to read the paper you would

I agree there are generally trade offs, that's essentially the results of my "60 pages of pointlessness" paper. If you did have time to read the paper you would notice a reference to this book http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/software-engineering-and-development/9781590595008/bruce-eckel-strong-typing-vsdot-strong-testing/bruce_eckel_colon_strong_typing_vs http://my.safaribooksonline.com/book/software-engineering-an... that is an agument for unit testing instead of static typing. I think we need to use the scientific method in computer science and not just base our ideas of intuition, belief or absolutes like "It's never so black and white".