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> The productivity boost for new development in Ruby is very real; I converted a 10K LoC java program to < 1K LoC Ruby in about a week, despite not knowing the language well at all

It's important not to conflate the benefits of Ruby here with benefits of dynamic typing.

Haskell is statically typed but can be as concise as Ruby (sometimes more concise, sometimes less).



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