[mecha_ghidorah]

> I'm firmly in the latter camp. Because the compiler can't check program correctness only type correctness. Type correctnes is necessary for program correctness, but NOT sufficient. Static typing adherents fail to recognize this, thus falsely believing that static typing guarantees them more than what it actually does (blub).

Uhm. What? I'm a static typing proponent and I have never believed that the compiler will guarantee program correctness. Nobody believes that. They believe it largely eliminates a certain category of error, which it does. You're entitled to your opinion on dynamic vs static typing, but this particular point of yours is just a wild straw man