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    Patrick Walton‏ @pcwalton 20 Jun 2018
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    Static vs. dynamic typing debates will never stop being interminably boring.

    2:41 PM - 20 Jun 2018 from Dogpatch, San Francisco
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    • get with the program, kiddo Vlad Patryshev sciomathman Connor Stein Γ ⊢ Arthur Xavier Julien Koenen Error 307C undefined is not undefined Bob Ippolito Mike Connor
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      1. James Iry‏ @jamesiry 20 Jun 2018
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        Interminably? With the right type system the arguments would provably terminate.

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      2. Nick Pollard‏ @Nick_enGB 20 Jun 2018
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        Static typing advocates don't need these debates, they already know they're right. Its the dynamic typing advocates need to actually play out the discussion before they realise their argument is ill-formed.

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      3. Bob Ippolito‏ @etrepum 21 Jun 2018
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        pic.twitter.com/5wD5PybnoL

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      1. Dethe Elza‏ @dethe 20 Jun 2018
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        statically boring or dynamically boring?

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      1. ShriramKrishnamurthi‏ @ShriramKMurthi 20 Jun 2018
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        The best part is the people making boring arguments for their side *in response to **this** tweet*! QED, I guess.

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      1. Stefan Arentz  🍁  🦊  🇳🇱‏ @satefan 20 Jun 2018
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        Writing Code > Debates

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      1. Filippo Sestini‏ @FilippoSestini 21 Jun 2018
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        There is no dynamic typing https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-languages-are-static-languages/ …

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      1. Rick Branson‏ @rbranson 20 Jun 2018
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        *opens dictionary to BA* banal [adj.] static vs dynamic typing debates

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      1. Sylvain Pollet-Villard‏ @SylvainPV 21 Jun 2018
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        A debate ? I thought everyone agreed that both are useful and serve different needs

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      1. Eyal Lotem  🏴‏ @EyalL 20 Jun 2018
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        I must say I've not seen any such debate in a long while. Another advantage to exclusively using static types? :-)

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