Karl Fogel

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"those who would give up type safety to purchase a little temporary liberty, deserve neither liberty nor type safety" @jimblandy on code

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That's a fun quote, source seems to be http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42934/what-do-people-find-so-appealing-about-dynamic-languages/42...

BTW, I've long intended to blog a screed about that famous quote, on the non-sustainability of deeming liberty and security as tradeoffs. http://www.lawfareblog.com/2011/07/what-ben-franklin-really-said/ is a good start.



Mike Linksvayer at 2015-04-04T19:14:26Z