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Surely you can see the part about recipes was an analogy to make a point and not directly equating two?

I think you're dismissing the post without engaging its arguments, so it hardly seems fair to start calling people naive, anti-intellectual, and ignorant. (btw, we all get that these are different ways of calling someone stupid, which is never productive and isn't justified in this case.)

To attempt to engage your argument, as far as I understand it... i think type systems and programming paragidms, however formal, can at best solve problems only in a corner of the problem set of software development. The limitation is because these do not take into account various kinds of constraints on software systems which nevertheless exist and are often the dominant constraints, depending on the project... Requirements, maintainability, usability, estimation, etc -- most of the stuff above the red line from the article.



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