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> Yes, strongly statically typed languages eliminate a LOT of potential bugs

They don't. AFAIK, lines of code is the only known metric with significant correlation with bugs so far. And if you ever wrote anything in a good dynamically typed language, like Perl, you know that its type system never causes any problems.



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