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Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de> writes:
> If you do this, perhaps you can find the time to use a, uh, stop-watch
> to measure the time it takes to produce, read, and change the programs?
> I.e., to technically manage significant software. The times will be
> important input for deciding whether or not static typing does indeed
> help in production.

No, I am a strong believer in strong static typing and I have no interest in
abandoning it.

C/C++ failures are clear, pretty much because they can easily have "no typing"
and low level memory corruption.

No, my point was merely the observation that strong dynamically typed systems
like Lisp don't seem to fail that badly, due to the robustness of the VM, most
likely, and the flexibilities they are allow to bring to bear.

It was merely out loud pondering, which always seems to get me in trouble.

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