Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

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On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 13:40:31 UTC, Chris wrote:
> "We found that developers gener-
> ally value expressiveness and speed of development over
> language-enforced correctness."
>
> I'll never understand why typing is regarded as such a big 
> effort that slows down development. The terrible yoke of typing!

Sounds to me like their study was limited to Silicon Valley web 
startups. I bet if the sample size was more diverse they'd get 
different results.