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That's because we don't actually have any concrete evidence one way or the other.

That's because we don't actually have any concrete evidence one way or the other. This is the biggest problem with the whole static/dynamic debate. Until there are studies that clearly demonstrate that projects written in statically typed languages have statistically less defects, are developed faster, or are easier to maintain, it's all anecdotal evidence. There are tons of large real world projects developed in both static and dynamic languages, there's very little indication that projects developed in dynamic languages have significantly more defects or that they're more difficult to maintain. In fact, some of the largest and most robust applications are written in Erlang. See the paper from Joe Armstrong as an example ( https://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf ).

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That's because we don't actually have any concrete evidence one way or the other.

yogthosOct 7, 2014, 11:58 PM

That's because we don't actually have any concrete evidence one way or the other. This is the biggest problem with the whole static/dynamic debate. Until there are studies that clearly demonstrate that projects written in statically typed languages have statistically less defects, are developed faster, or are easier to maintain, it's all anecdotal evidence. There are tons of large real world projects developed in both static and dynamic languages, there's very little indication that projects developed in dynamic languages have significantly more defects or that they're more difficult to maintain. In fact, some of the largest and most robust applications are written in Erlang. See the paper from Joe Armstrong as an example ( https://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf ).

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