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Re:Things I Was Wrong About: Types by mceldeen on Sunday September 27, 2020 @11:45AM (#24607481)
> IMHO, type-less provides some resiliency. If you write code for a "string" anything that satisfies "stringiness" will still run just fine.

Things like that are actually possible to do in a light weight way in FP languages and many of them are part of the stdlib. (PureScript happens to be my favorite example.) Many times it brings back the same feelings I had working in Ruby (which I also happen to love), but with the added confidence of a strong type system.

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Re:Things I Was Wrong About: Types by withinboredom on Sunday September 27, 2020 @12:02PM (#24607640)
Scala is the closest I've gotten to FP at work. I'd love to play with Haskell/F#/etc in a professional setting, it just hasn't come up. Yet.
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Re:Things I Was Wrong About: Types by mceldeen on Sunday September 27, 2020 @11:02PM (#24612558)
Haskell family languages are something unique. I’ve never worked with Scala so I can’t say.
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