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Re:Haskell v Ada v C++ v Awk... An Experiment in Software Pr... by ardz on Thursday January 09, 2014 @06:51AM (#7029939)
I have no such problems. Think/hack/try first, code later - this is my advice to you.

Pen and paper are my debugging tools, not a type system.

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Re:Haskell v Ada v C++ v Awk... An Experiment in Software Pr... by lmm on Friday January 10, 2014 @03:26PM (#7039128)
I can do that, and I've used languages and hardware where it was the only option. But I'm much faster and more effective with a type system.
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