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"You don't find yourself needing static typing if you're doing a small, self-contained, line-of-business task like a script. You start to really want it for multi-developer programs and for infrastructural jobs that'll take months to complete (and, at age 32-- that's ancient in programming years-- the only programming challenges that really interest me are the hard ones where Haskell's type discipline pays off in a major way)."

IME, this seems to be roughly, "What are the odds you'll need to refactor significantly because the world changed around you?"



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