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The point about a static type system not catching all errors is well taken[1], but if a programmer has mixed up factorial and Fibonacci I would expect that their tests would reflect this as well as their code. This is more the sort of thing you should rely on code reviews to spot.

[1] Isn't the old joke in Haskell "If your program compiles it probably does something someone would find useful, but not necessarily the useful thing you want"



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