On: If You're Not Writing a Program, Don't Use a Progr...

[maxxxxx]

"A lot of the new people"

[TeMPOraL → maxxxxx]

But that's only if they also got some experience working with static typing. Without that, they won't see the difference in difficulty, as they have no reference to compare to.

[maxxxxx → TeMPOraL]

Feeling the pain would already be a good start :-). With a lot of Javascript projects being very short term a lot of people never get the experience of maintaining a code base for years.

[RandomInteger4 → maxxxxx]

Ah, thank you for disambiguating the pronoun 'they' whose reference wasn't clear as you provided no antecedent.

EDIT: Heh, kind of ironic really. A pronoun without an antecedent is like a variable in a dynamic programming language whose context isn't clear.

[maxxxxx → RandomInteger4]

I guess I am a dynamic writer but a strongly typed programmer :-)