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Because a lot of people live under the assumption that statically typed languages will slow them down.



Which is true for a certain metric. If you just count in terms of amount of text that needs to be written, scripting languages win (in the prototyping phase).


I'm honestly not sure it holds with expressive languages that use type inference, such as haskell.




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