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We can argue about the definition of 'understand' all day, but it's a simple fact that the computer has more of an understanding of the structure of your progra
by hacker_9 10y ago
We can argue about the definition of 'understand' all day, but it's a simple fact that the computer has more of an understanding of the structure of your program with a type system, and thus can help out more.
- bb88 10y agoI still wouldn't use 'understanding' in that context. It makes as if a static typing compiler sounds "magical". I could say "python is better at understanding what the programmer wants to do". But I think you'd disagree with me. The compiler is doing lexical analysis of the program being fed into it. That's it.