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People will tell you that instagram uses python or yelp or other big name projects use python. Certainly, type checking is not Essential to a large project the same way utensils are not essential when you eat. You can just use your hands to shove all the food into your mouth.

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As an Indian, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of your analogy...

Perhaps you can infer that someone who thinks eating with their hands is uncivilized will have equally ignorant opinions about computing.

And what you are inferring is incorrect. I never said eating with your hands is uncivilized. You inferred it in your request for someone else to infer something.

Oh, stop backtracking. If I were you, I'd take the metaphor further and explain why eating with utensils is more hygienic. Type safety, food safety, ... You could write some flavorful prose (ha!).

Wait, was the underlying message not supposed to be "everyone should conform to my world view"?

That was not the underlying message. The underlying message is: I have my world view, I am offering it, you can agree, disagree or conform. The choice is yours. I would never force anyone to conform. Where in my post did I say that?

You latched onto the word "conform" when the word "should" was more important. You implied that type systems are better in the same way that utensils are better. If that wasn't your intention, your analogy was extremely confusing.

It's controversial. It could be good or bad, depending on your culture and opinions.

Well, there are rules to using utensils, and eating some types of food using them would seem uncivilized if not plain ridiculous. (Eating without hands, though, is surely uncivilized in the eyes of most people.)

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