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I was missing R and Python in the article. And who says we need a king? Maybe the rich ecosystem of many coexisting languages is better?



R and Python aren't "hip" like Haskell, Clojure, and Julia. There is no buzz, they are old news.


In my experience there is a substantial subset of programmers/computer scientists who don't even consider any dynamically typed language as worth their time. In their view, these are at most for beginners or small projects. This bias is like a huge blind spot...


I think there's also an equal but opposite bias, where programmers disregard static typing by falsely equating it to what's in Java and C#.

In both cases, I think the blub paradox is solidly at work.


No, actually, proponents of Python or R don't generally claim that all statically typed languages are useless in practice. In fact I don't remember any evidence of that.

Also there doesn't seem to be any evidence that dynamic typing is detrimental to programming.

And I don't see all non-computer-science-scientist-programmers learning Haskell any time soon.




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