KillSticky

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   by KillSticky 9y ago

   > So? Not everybody needs to use a crutch to walk. How about having to patch a live code on a running server using only a plain text editor? This is not fiction, this is real. This is not a sound argument to advocate dynamic languages. T
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   by KillSticky 9y ago

   The initial development of a chunk of code is not the same as the initial development of a shippable product. Code maintenance starts the moment you need to go back and add anything nontrivial to the existing code. And you will have to go
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   by KillSticky 9y ago

   The presenter focuses on the cost of building software in the first place. Yet, in practice, the cost of maintenance often dwarfs the cost of initial development. This is where statically typed languages hold major advantage of dynamically