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Well then, if no true programmer likes dynamically typed languages, I'd better make some calls... Hey, RMS, Abelson, Sussman, Steele, Guido, Larry, Matz, Richa
by qwertyuiop924 10y ago
Well then, if no true programmer likes dynamically typed languages, I'd better make some calls...
Hey, RMS, Abelson, Sussman, Steele, Guido, Larry, Matz, Richard Gabriel, ESR, DHH, Flatt, and Felleisen, it turns out you're not true programmers! Okay, cool.
Needless to say, I claim No True Scottsman.
- mkawia 10y agoI see it like; smart,disciplined programmers are capable of writing complex programs in dynamically typed languages without making as many errors.
- wtbob 10y agoLisp, though, does have types.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoAll languages have types. Lisp, however, and particularly the versions that those people worked with, are dynamically typed, like Javascript. Unlike JS, they aren't weakly typed, but that's not the point. To say nothing of Ruby and Python, for which there are also programmers on that list.
- wtbob 10y agoCommon Lisp compilers may implement static typing. The default type is T, though — but with declarations, a compiler can enforce anything the programmer declares or it infers.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoMost of those people either worked with MACLisp, or dynamically typed Scheme.