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There's an interesting thread on typing over on LtU - The comment I just linked to is interesting:

Premature lockdown of types or classes has the potential to harm projects. Plain and simple. Rigid human thinking creates brittle software. The vast majority of projects fail and I wonder how many fail as a result of the kind of rigid thinking imposed by typed variables and other brittleness spreading features of current languages

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