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Formal definition of “concepts / type system” for parametric types - Where to start?

I would be interested in formally defining (and consequently demonstrating) a "type system" for, well, a type system. More specifically, I would like to explore the idea of what C++ calls concepts for ...
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What can Haskell's type system do that Java's can't and vice versa?

I was talking to a friend about the differences between the type systems of Haskell and Java. He asked me what Haskell's could do that Java's couldn't, and I realized that I didn't know. After ...
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(Dis-)advantages of structural typing

I’ve just watched this talk by Daniel Spiewak where he talks about the advantages of structural typing as compared to Scala’s ans Java’s nominal typing. One example for this difference would be the ...
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Is hungarian notation a workaround for languages with insufficiently-expressive (i.e. Haskell-style) static typing?

Edit To be clear, I'm not talking about annotation variable names with the data type, but rather with information about the meaning of the variable in the context of the program. For example, a ...
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Dynamically vs Statically typed languages studies

Do there exist studies done on the effectiveness of statically vs dynamically typed languages? In particular: Measurements of programmer productivity Defect Rate Also including the effects of ...
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Do dynamic typed languages deserve all the criticism? [closed]

I have read a few articles on Internet about programming language choice in the enterprise. Recently many dynamic typed languages have been popular, i.e. Ruby, Python, PHP and Erlang. But many ...