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It is interesting that I often see people coming primarily from a strongly typed language say this kind of thing, whereas people used to working in dynamic lang
by catwell 12y ago
It is interesting that I often see people coming primarily from a strongly typed language say this kind of thing, whereas people used to working in dynamic languages rarely make obvious type errors.
This says something about what tooling does to people. Haskell people say they think in types but this make it look wrong. It would appear they are less good with types when you take their tools away. People working primarily in dynamic language probably end up writing programs that are mostly correct in that respect because they have no other choice to become productive.
This looks similar to how people who are raised in clean environments are more vulnerable to bacteries. This is not a bad thing: we still improved life expectancy a lot with hygiene and antibiotics. But we got weaker immune systems and allergies.