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Comment by TJSomething

11 years ago

How about "A Large Scale Study of Programming Languages and Code Quality in Github" by Baishakhi, et al. [1]? That shows a weak correlation between fewer bugs and static typing. There's a stronger correlation between strong typing and fewer bugs.

[1] http://macbeth.cs.ucdavis.edu/lang_study.pdf

I am familiar with that study and while I have serious issues with the methodology, I do not think it says what you think it does[1].

[1] If you think it refutes my point, that is.