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Re:If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming ... by vishnugupta on Monday September 24, 2018 @12:57PM (#18059266)
This. I'm an oldie and I prefer static typing. Heck, I can't even get my head around dynamically typed languages. And for any non-trivial production level software I strongly believe the choice of programming language has no bearing on the productivity. I.e., a team of Java experts will be as much productive in a Java stack as a team of python experts in a Python stack.

A big reason for the recent shift towards dynamic languages, in my opinion, is what's taught in college now a days. I believe it's mostly Python or the likes. In my college days (late 1990s) it was all statically typed languages (Fortran, Cobol, C, Pascal etc.,). So that's how my generation ended up learning to model a problem and solution in statically typed languages and natural preference towards them.

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Re:If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming ... by emodendroket on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:49PM (#18060269)
I agree. People obsess about the choice of programming language, insisting that months of study are needed to choose. I just don't see it except for very specialized tools or applications.

That said, I find maintaining an old, large application written in an untyped language pretty miserable.

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Re:If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming ... by i_made_a_booboo on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:24AM (#18064047)
I've had equal misery both typed and untyped on large, old, legacy stuff.

Maybe programming just sucks.

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Re:If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Programming ... by emodendroket on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @08:18AM (#18065654)
At least you don't have to read the method to figure out the input and output types. And the IDE can help you much more. I find these things big when trying to modify some massive codebase I don't know inside and out.
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