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Re:Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect... by elderberry on Friday June 08, 2012 @04:52AM (#4083354)
I'm betting youtube is bigger than all of your sites combined, and they use python.
Re:Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect... by xymostech on Friday June 08, 2012 @05:10AM (#4083392)
And good on them. But that doesn't mean it's easy to write large websites in dynamically-typed programming languages, it just means that they are very good at what they do.
Re:Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect... by quadhome on Friday June 08, 2012 @05:18AM (#4083416)
No, it doesn't. It doesn't mean anything except that your belief isn't supported by any scientific data (as far as presented in this thread).
Re:Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect... by pjmlp on Friday June 08, 2012 @09:09AM (#4083963)
Let's see, each project usually has:

- Multi-site development at least in 3 countries; - Sometimes up to 100+ developers - CI systems - Source code of several MB of source code - Enterprise like infrastructures for Fortune 500 companies - Different skill sets from the "just out of the university" to the "top developer"

Maybe YouTube beats this, but Google only has Phd guys able to crack out crazy algorithms/data structures in minutes. Not typical in most software houses.

Re:Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect... by lusr on Friday June 08, 2012 @11:04AM (#4084521)
YouTube is of a different class of complexity as faced by enterprise developers integrating millions of lines of code across disparate systems.
Re:Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect... by kombine on Friday June 08, 2012 @06:09AM (#4083540)
And you have no idea how they struggled while developing it. Besides, it's not entirely written in python.
Re:Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no effect... by pjmlp on Sunday June 10, 2012 @03:58AM (#4090507)
Enterprise world does not have the Phd developers that YouTube has.