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vamega on March 26, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hire talent, not five years with Java

Would you discount someone who didn't write tests, but wrote the solution in a language that had a strong, static type system (like Haskell, OCaml, etc)?

prophetjohn on March 27, 2013 | [–]

I might be willing to overlook the lack of test for an intern or very junior person, but not above that level.

Writing the code in an "unusual" language, would net big bonus points, though. I get tired of seeing the same solutions in Java and Python.

superuser2 on March 26, 2013 | [–]

Because all software bugs are a result of dynamic typing? What?

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