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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by erfgh on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @05:15AM (#15391157)
> This is insane in Python/C/Ruby.

It's only insane if you don't have test cases with good coverage, in which case you are very-very-very screwed, statically typed or not.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by rndmio on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @07:43AM (#15391704)
Testing is not the answer to the problem of knowing if I refactored everywhere necessary. In a statically typed language I don't even have to worry about what do I do if my function is passed a var of the wrong type, it won't compile.
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