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Re:On the Impact of Programming Languages on Code Quality by JamesBarney on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @03:19PM (#20108141)
I always think of languages as a solution space, and some points in the space possessing bugs while others don't. A perfect language(impossible) would make it so you could write any correct version of a program in the language but not any incorrect version. And language constraints like static typing have the disadvantage that you're preventing a bunch of correct possible solutions while closing off incorrect solutions. Ideally closing off many more incorrect solutions than correct ones increasing your chance of landing in a correction solution.

And of course lots of out of band(non-language) processes and tools that influence this like unit testing/code reviews/strict coding guidelines. But it's always nicer when it's prevented at the language level as opposed to out of band.

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