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Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by fulafel on Thursday October 03, 2019 @12:14PM (#21148654)
In typeless languages like forth, asdembly etc the debugging is more confusing than in Python, because you often see the situation blow multiple layers after the error happened. Or you may simply get silent wrong anwers. And in C, just the pointer vs value distinction in the type system makes code dramatically clearer and catches lots of errors.

This is how limited type systems are still very much better than no types.

Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by leshow on Thursday October 03, 2019 @02:12PM (#21150044)
> This is how limited type systems are still very much better than no types.

This is not what I was arguing against. I was arguing that I would be surprised if people were happy to go from strong typing to dynamic typing, not that 'limited' type systems are better than 'no types'.

Re:What Is Good About Haskell? by fulafel on Thursday October 03, 2019 @03:03PM (#21150767)
Ah. My original comment was about how limited type systems are still useful, in response to someone not seeing their point when using them. Communication is hard :)