5 ms·

Because a lot of people live under the assumption that statically typed languages will slow them down.

• zimbatm 12y ago
  Which is true for a certain metric. If you just count in terms of amount of text that needs to be written, scripting languages win (in the prototyping phase).
  • uniclaude 12y ago
    I'm honestly not sure it holds with expressive languages that use type inference, such as haskell.