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by mpweiher 3315 days ago
The "documentation for humans" effect is also the only effect that has had at least some empirical validation[1]. Interestingly, it is not necessary to have the type names/annotations actually statically checked.

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/stefanhanenberg/

[EDIT] Clarified which effect
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rhaps0dy 3315 days ago
> That's also the only effect that has had at least some validation scientifically

Which effect, sorry? I can't identify the referent of "That".

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mpweiher 3315 days ago
Sorry, fixed. They also studied "time to completion" and "correctness" for a new task, and for those the dynamic languages did better.
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rhaps0dy 3315 days ago
Thanks. After commenting I read the first paper in the page you linked. The one about trying to give an advantage to dynamic languages (Groovy vs Java), and measuring time-to-completion, for 4 tasks.

Turns out a static language has a time advantage when using an API, but a dynamic one has an advantage when writing code (that nobody will reuse).

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