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OK, ask me that question about defining the difference and I'll argue with the question, and back up my argument with examples of how type systems are far more
by ubernostrum 10y ago
OK, ask me that question about defining the difference and I'll argue with the question, and back up my argument with examples of how type systems are far more of a spectrum of different cases than a stark static/dynamic binary.
And then your non-engineer phone screener who's expecting the answer to match the scripted sheet will conclude that I don't know this "fundamental" thing and thus am unqualified.
- ojilles 10y agoWhich would be true, or rather: over-qualified.
- dspeyer 10y agoThis isn't a question a non-engineer phone screener can ask. Coming up with first pass filters that don't require an engineer to interpret is harder.
- mikeash 10y agoThis is proposed as a question that an engineer would ask, not some base-level screener.