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You are going to be lectured at length by the (OOP) static types crowd. And they have a point about using explicit types, when it's easy.

That said, I wish the "strong types" crowd would take a look at all of the temporal coupling that their OOP designs are causing, with their update-at-will practices. Now that we have working garbage collector software plus adequate hardware support, why not make use of that?

FP needs to become a more widely used practice.



I think, a "Data Driven Development" approach would make a lot of implementations easier.

Something as described in this talk: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tb823aqgX_0


Some of the largest "strong types" advocates are FP folks


Some are, some aren't :-)

Some are just lost if autocomplete in the IDE doesn't enter stuff for them, and the more verbosely the IDE spews, the better, cuz it looks like "work".


Languages like PreScheme compile to C with no GC. You manage memory manually. So there's those kind of systems too.




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