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Static typing is better than dynamic typing in programming languages.

Static typing serves as reliable documentation.
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Static typing is better than dynamic typing in programming languages.

It is easier to detect and fix compile-time errors than runtime errors.
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Functional programming is not useful for most apps

"Functional programming" is ill-defined.
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Programming languages with fancy type systems (like Haskell) will never become mainstream.

A programming language has a limited "strangeness budget", and if this budget is exceeded, the language becomes too hard to learn.
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Hitler Wasn't THAT Bad.

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
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Static typing is better than dynamic typing in programming languages.

Programming languages with fancy type systems (like Haskell) will never become mainstream.
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Static typing is better than dynamic typing in programming languages.

Every error can be made a type error in a sufficiently expressive type system, with the extreme case being dependent types, which can encode everything. In practice, though, I think that type systems that support tagged unions / variant types catch many bugs with little effort.
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Static typing is better than dynamic typing in programming languages.

Languages with type inference, as far as I know, either recommend annotating types of functions as best practice, or just don't use global type inference.
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Computer Science is not actually a science

Science, unlike math, is based mainly on empirical evidence.
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