Pro Static Typing Argument 1

When you are writing code you are making what seems like one hundred decisions simultaneously on a whole variety of levels, from what algorithm to use to what data structures to use all the way down to what to name variables to make them consistent with the rest of the code base. I think even the best engineers can only keep a handful of these in the front of their brain at any time as "rational decisions", the rest are just taken care of by intuition and habit. Most of the time this works fine, but every so often the habitual or short circuited intuition decision is a bad one. Thus an important criteria of which tools and languages you use are ones that have very slow cost in exposing these errors. I think static typing is one of these tools.