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		TJSomething on April 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Shen: A Sufficiently Advanced Lisp [video] (2014) How about "A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github" by Baishakhi, et al. [1]? That shows a weak correlation between fewer bugs and static typing. There's a stronger correlation between strong typing and fewer bugs. [1] http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/lang_study.pdf

lomnakkus on April 1, 2015 [–]

I am familiar with that study and while I have serious issues with the methodology, I do not think it says what you think it does[1].

[1] If you think it refutes my point, that is.

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