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> That having said, if you cannot hire well, a good type
> safe language might help in eliminating smaller
> errors.  But then, you are never going to have

No, because the incompetent programmers will make everything
'int' or 'double' without taking steps to handle/catch the
problems this causes.

> If you can hire well, a super-strong type safe
> language will only annoy your best programmers,
> who don't need the type safety to avoid bugs
> but have to work around it for all the things
> that they do need to do.  You can still deliver

What a crock.  Nothing stops these guys from declaring
everything as "float" and wasting hours handling problems
that the compiler could have handled.  If there are no
such problems ....