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Re:Static typing will not save us from broken software by KMag on Sunday October 23, 2016 @08:35PM (#12776127)
"Dynamic Witnesses for Static Type Errors* ("or ill-typed programs usually go wrong)"[0] by Eric Seidel et. al. discusses a prototype for a system that searches for concrete examples of ill-typed inputs that break a program, in order to aid novice programmers with type errors at compile time.

[0]http://eric.seidel.io/pub/nanomaly-icfp16.pdf

Re:Static typing will not save us from broken software by dllthomas on Monday October 24, 2016 @12:47PM (#12780499)
That is really cool! When will it be in GHC? :D