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Guile: Types and the Web

• baldfat 11y ago
  > It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a program with good use of data types, will be free from many common bugs. Unfortunately, the common practice in web programming seems to ignore this maxim. Web Programming = One Giant Hack built on hacks.
  • hga 11y ago
    Well, one can overthink the problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
• agumonkey 11y ago
  Similarly: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3hfdpg/more_magic_structurally_fixing_injection_bugs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3hfdpg/more_ma... yet another schemer :)
• kwhitefoot 11y ago
  Not often you see a Jane Austen reference on a technical web page.
  • oever 11y ago
    Nothing is universally acknowledged on the internet. Especially not when it comes the usefulness of explicit data types. Lazy web hobbyists abandon their code before they get bitten by lack of data types.