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in thread Static typing is mostly a waste of time

I think you are right, which is frustrating to me for some reason. *shrugs* Oh, well.
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Re^10: Static typing is mostly a waste of time
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 13, 2005 at 18:37 UTC
    Once you accept it, its actually liberating. Now when you meet someone who complains about Perl not being theoretically pure, you can respond "You're right. But I manage to productive with it anyway." And you can move along to bigger and better things.
      Now when you meet someone who complains about Perl not being theoretically pure, you can respond "You're right. But I manage to productive with it anyway."

      Amen. I'd pick being productive over being theoretically pure any day of the week.

      (that's not to say, of course, that there are not ways to be "pure" and be productive :-)