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In the Church of Complexity, static typing makes everything harder. Go see what happens to a simple extract method refactoring over in the MS tools - and then look at what the Smalltalk Refactoring Browser does in a similar situation. Then, have a look here to see what kinds of things fall out of having static typing and interfaces. Wow. That sort of thing would have made for lots of very complex code in parts of BottomFeeder....
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