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> Oh yeah the easiest code in the world to read is some contorted type system and function signatures that look like hieroglyphics that you need a PHd in CS to comprehend.

You can also make a book easier to read by ripping out all its pages.

If you eliminate the content you need to read to understand something, what have you actually made easier?

> No typing system can tell you that you wrote > when you should have written <.

There are many that can; e.g. via SMT-decidable refinement types, or even full undecidable dependent types coupled with automated solvers and manual proofs.



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