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jasimtoday at 7:51 AM1 replyview on HN

But couple that with a deterministic system - the type checker with exhaustive destructing (and pattern matching, while we are it it) - that would become a fool-proof combination.


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healthworkertoday at 7:54 AM

Agreed. As long as we understand that the map (the code) is not the territory (the spirit of what the code should do), e.g., I can't have type-checking for earthquake if I don't have any earthquake-related concepts in the code yet, but earthquake could and should still be part of the aspirational aspect of the inline spec.

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