A Pragmatic Case for Static Typing

[Roy Smith]

In article <7xfvtnwsn9.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>,
 Paul Rubin <no.email at nospam.invalid> wrote:

> "Russ P." <Russ.Paielli at gmail.com> writes:
> > I just stumbled across this video and found it interesting:
> > http://vimeo.com/72870631
> > My apologies if it has been posted here already.
> 
> The slides for it are here, so I didn't bother watching the 1 hour video:
> 
>   http://gbaz.github.io/slides/hurt-statictyping-07-2013.pdf

Thank you for posting that.

My favorite slide (especially since for the past few years, I've mostly 
worked in 3 person teams).

> Brian's Observation:
> 
> At 3 people on a team, there is a 50% chance that 
>> at least one of them is a full-time idiot.
> 
> As the teams grow larger, the probability of not 
> having an idiot on the team falls rapidly to zero.