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> Disadvantage is more verbosity, but it's a trade-off.

When I was learning Haskell, I wrote a program to count the value of a cribbage hand. The code was half the length of an equivalent JavaScript program.

The expressiveness of a language has more to do with the length of a resulting program than static or dynamic typing.




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