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by lucidstack 2708 days ago
Software should be designed for ease of reading, not ease of writing.

- John Ousterhout
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ken 2707 days ago
It's funny to see the creator of Tcl (where nearly everything is a string, including lists, and blocks of code) quoted in a thread praising type safety.

Could it be that adding type safety isn't always an improvement to readability?

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