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> they only care if the piece of technology they use gives them the right answer. A poorly typed program often would give a wrong answer, or, in a less danger
by nine_k 2y ago
> they only care if the piece of technology they use gives them the right answer.
A poorly typed program often would give a wrong answer, or, in a less dangerous case, crash.
Same for physical parts: you want them to solve some business problem, but often you won't go for the absolute cheapest, because they may work poorly.
- dismalaf 2y agoI'm thinking more along the lines of how scripting languages are often used in, say, scientific domains (Python, R, etc...). Or how JavaScript and Ruby are more popular than, say, Rust and Haskell for startups. "Poorly typed" means different things to different people, in the context of this article and thread it would probably mean weakly typed or dynamically typed? Which has nothing to do at all with the correctness of a formula or what output a program will produce.