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A comment on Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test. Parent comment

Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by softawre on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:09PM (#12705713)
Static typing is basically a bunch of free type-based unit tests. You can write safer programs in dynamic languages, but you need to write and maintain a lot more tests.
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Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test by brianwawok on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:57PM (#12705873)
You can't compare static + N tests, vs not static with M > N tests.

Compare static with N tests, vs not static with N tests. In what case would the not static be safer?

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