By way of one of the many aggregators I watch, this article: Is Weak Typing Strong Enough?. He shares some insights from the trenches at Amazon, where he had the opportunity to watch Java and Perl hackers work side-by-side on the same system, often duplicating bits of code in their respective pieces.

Guess who “won” regardless of the author’s reservations about this unsafe language. And guess what Amazon’s management decided…

Even though the article has quite a number of factual errors, another interesting read on the topic.

Sigh… did I promise not to return to this a couple of days ago?

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