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I think there's also an equal but opposite bias, where programmers disregard static typing by falsely equating it to what's in Java and C#. In both cases, I th
by reitzensteinm 13y ago
I think there's also an equal but opposite bias, where programmers disregard static typing by falsely equating it to what's in Java and C#.
In both cases, I think the blub paradox is solidly at work.
- bayesianhorse 13y agoNo, actually, proponents of Python or R don't generally claim that all statically typed languages are useless in practice. In fact I don't remember any evidence of that. Also there doesn't seem to be any evidence that dynamic typing is detrimental to programming. And I don't see all non-computer-science-scientist-programmers learning Haskell any time soon.