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From: Florent Monnier <monnier.florent@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Caml-list] How to explain static typing to other people?

2013/08/28, oliver wrote:
> Hello,
>
> did you ever get the response, that one could use Java,
> when you talked about the static typing advantages of
> languages like OCaml or Haskell?
>
> I often heard that and after trying to explain the differences
> for a while, I  started to stop the discussion, because the other person
> will not understand it. (Maybe it needs to be tried in the real world
> to see the differences... discussing about it alone can't work, I guess.)
[...]

sometimes a drawing (or something visual) is better than a long explanation:

http://www.ekobutiks.com/1551-thickbox/jouet-boite-a-formes-classic-goki-jouets-en-bois.jpg

>From the beginning I understand the OCaml type system to be something
very similar to this child educational game.

-- 
Regards
Florent