Re: Static/Dynamic typing, lessons from the field

The reason I found the article interesting was not so much the analysis
of the theoretical pros and cons of static/dynamic typing but the hard
fact that that *in the field* the dynamic typing guys were much more
productive with no observable difference in robustness of the
corresponding solution. I cannot think off hand of other language "case
studies" that spanned multiple years and held the problem domain and
talent pool constant.

Granted we are talking Java here. Perhaps ML or Haskell would have done
better. But then again, they did use Perl instead of Lisp.

-pp

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