It turns out that strong typing does not eliminate the need for careful testing. And I have found in my work that the sorts of errors that strong type checking finds are no the errors I worry about.

Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. ... Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual increasing training costs.

Computer programs are the most complex things that humans make.

Most programming languages contain good parts and bad parts. I discovered that I could be better programmer by using only the good parts and avoiding the bad parts.

JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.

Things don't change because people change their minds. They change because they retire or die.

Generally, the craft of programming is the factoring of a set of requirements into a a set of functions and data structures.