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Re:The sky is not falling – about the supposed end of dynami... by incepted on Sunday November 29, 2015 @11:14AM (#10644958)
> With dynamic typing you're much more likely to break things up early precisely because you know you have to keep things in your head.

If you are programming with a language that forces to keep everything in your head, you'll never build big systems.

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Re:The sky is not falling – about the supposed end of dynami... by yogthos on Sunday November 29, 2015 @06:07PM (#10646537)
You mean you'll never build a monolith. In practice, I've been working on big systems in Clojure for the past 5 years. They just happen to be broken down into manageable components you can work on and reason about in isolation.
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Re:The sky is not falling – about the supposed end of dynami... by incepted on Sunday November 29, 2015 @09:50PM (#10647334)
"I" makes me think you've only ever worked solo on Clojure projects, is that correct?
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Re:The sky is not falling – about the supposed end of dynami... by sitkack on Sunday November 29, 2015 @12:04PM (#10645173)
The kind of code you could only write while on holiday in Cambodia.
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Re:The sky is not falling – about the supposed end of dynami... by Turing_Machine on Sunday November 29, 2015 @07:51PM (#10646962)
Umm... that's why we have modules, and functions, and...
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