I bet you thought I was going to explain how type systems are like newspapers. Instead, I’m going to do something I never do: just link to a couple of articles.

What to Know Before Debating Type Systems

http://www.pphsg.org/cdsmith/types.html

This article is not only comprehensive and correct, it starts off by dispelling the most common fallacies programmers have when debating type systems. It also has a good selection of links if you’re interested in learning about type systems.

Yes, journalists deserve subsidies too

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/22/AR2009102203960.html

I can’t say much about this article—it’s comprehensively incorrect and proposes fallacies common to the is-journalism-dying debate. It was posted on Slashdot.

OK OK. I can relate the two. In the journalism article, Norway is like Ruby’s type system, and America is like C#’s. Happy?