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goatlover on Aug 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Software Engineering ≠ Computer Science (2009)

Are languages like C & C++ that much better?

NTDF9 on Aug 7, 2017 | [–]

Neither are "better". Its all about tradeoffs.

I hate large python code bases with no strict types specified anywhere. It's a nightmare to maintain that code.

knocte on Aug 7, 2017 | | [–]

Of course not, but Haskell/F#/OCaml/F*/Rust are.

Tehnix on Aug 7, 2017 | [–]

No, but languages like Haskell, Ocaml, F#, Idris, Purescript, Elm etc are definitely, when talking about correctness.

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