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		phamilton on June 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Study of 49 programmers: static type system had no... My point I guess was that with proper abstractions and duck typing you really don't have to care about the type. I only notice something isn't a duck when I try to use it like a duck and it fails - which is surprisingly infrequent.

ww520 on June 8, 2012 [–]

It becomes difficult to tell it's a duck when reading code, which was the original complaint. Duck type works when you actually try calling it.

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