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Reader Bill Mill writes in the comments to my On static typing (1) post: "I think there's a limited set of circumstances where strong static type checking is useful for actually catching errors. Mainly, I would want strong type checking in an application which had to run unattended, had to never crash, and had to always be right. ... [721 words]