Python from Wise Guy's Viewpoint

[Marshall Spight]

"Paul F. Dietz" <dietz at dls.net> wrote in message news:KrKdnVmOxJrQfgWiRVn-vg at dls.net...
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> (7) Developing reliable software also requires extensive testing to
>    detect bugs other than type errors, and
> (8) These tests will usually detect most of the bugs that static
>    type checking would have detected.

Whether and to what degree (8) is true is the big open
question in this debate. Does anyone have any objective
metrics? Anyone know how to get them?

This strikes me as a very hard thing to quantify.


Marshall