"Over time, not only have I learned to appreciate languages with good type systems, I actually now prefer them for solving certain classes of problems." I thin

"Over time, not only have I learned to appreciate languages with good type systems, I actually now prefer them for solving certain classes of problems." I think that dynamic typing seems easier at first, but after a while you see how static typing would catch mistakes you make. While one programmer gains the experience necessary to appreciate static typing, a new programmer starts programming and doesn't have that experience yet, thus the static vs dynamic debate is always with us. I described it here: http://www.databasesandlife.com/the-cycle-of-programming-languages/ http://www.databasesandlife.com/the-cycle-of-programming-lan...