> Oh, look, somebody just re-discovered static typing. If you're going to smug, at least do it when you're on the right side of the technology. The problem the

> Oh, look, somebody just re-discovered static typing. If you're going to smug, at least do it when you're on the right side of the technology. The problem the article describes has nothing to do with the degree of static typing a language might have. You can make narrow, tight, clean interfaces in dynamic languages; you can make sprawling and unfocused ones in statically-typed languages. The problem is one of mindset --- the way I'd do it, an insufficient appreciation of the beauty of parsimony. Nothing to do with any specific type system or language.