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Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing

From Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing
Date 2013-09-02 08:41 -0400
Organization PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID <roy-ADB70F.08412102092013@news.panix.com> (permalink)
References <8bc2f539-ae7a-4cd8-83c0-91449aecd616@googlegroups.com> <7xfvtnwsn9.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>

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In article <7xfvtnwsn9.fsf@ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> "Russ P." <Russ.Paielli@gmail.com> writes:
> > I just stumbled across this video and found it interesting:
> > http://vimeo.com/72870631
> > My apologies if it has been posted here already.
> 
> The slides for it are here, so I didn't bother watching the 1 hour video:
> 
>   http://gbaz.github.io/slides/hurt-statictyping-07-2013.pdf

Thank you for posting that.

My favorite slide (especially since for the past few years, I've mostly 
worked in 3 person teams).

> Brian's Observation:
> 
> At 3 people on a team, there is a 50% chance that 
>> at least one of them is a full-time idiot.
> 
> As the teams grow larger, the probability of not 
> having an idiot on the team falls rapidly to zero.

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A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing "Russ P." <Russ.Paielli@gmail.com> - 2013-09-01 21:24 -0700
  Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2013-09-02 01:10 -0700
    Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-09-02 09:44 +0000
      Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-02 09:37 -0400
      Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2013-09-03 02:10 +0100
        Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 21:36 -0400
    Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 22:04 +1000
    Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-09-02 08:41 -0400
      Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-09-03 08:43 +1000
    Re: A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing "Russ P." <Russ.Paielli@gmail.com> - 2013-09-02 11:33 -0700

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