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A study (http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio//tcheck_tse98.pdf http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio//tcheck_tse98.pd...) by the Lutz Prechelt men
by ShardPhoenix 17y ago
A study (http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio//tcheck_tse98.pdf http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio//tcheck_tse98.pd...) by the Lutz Prechelt mentioned on the slides suggests that, all else being equal, static type checking reduces defects and increases productivity (the study was for ANSI C vs. K&R C). So a concise but statically typed language (Scala?) might be a better choice than either Java or Python.