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> Static typing? One study, presented at FSE 2014, found no evidence that static typing is helpful—or harmful

And yet the abstract of the linked paper says:

> Most notably, it does appear that strong typing is modestly better than weak typing, and among functional languages, static typing is also somewhat better than dynamic typing.

parent _match 3 years ago

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