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It is interesting that you don't recommend any languages with a proper type system. Do you believe types are not important?
by jacoblyles 17y ago
It is interesting that you don't recommend any languages with a proper type system. Do you believe types are not important?
- angrycoder 17y agoI'm gonna take a guess and say he has been programming for more than 2 years and realizes that types really don't matter.
- donw 17y agoDefine 'proper' type system; C is a static, strongly typed language, with the important feature that the type system is simple enough for an inexperienced programmer to understand and be capable of implementing.
- Avshalom 17y agoI'm pretty sure C is considered weak in it will automatically cast from one type to another.
- Miky 17y agoC's type system is restrictive enough to get annoying occasionally, but doesn't protect you from loads of things it could, since it is not strongly typed.
- camccann 17y agoC's "types" are just interchangeable methods of interpreting a pile of bits. That's not a strong type system, that's types on the honor system.
- calcnerd256 17y agoBy "proper" do you mean mandatory? Otherwise, people are going to yell "CLOS" at you.
- cageface 17y agoI'm guessing you're referring to languages like Haskell here. I think the work people are doing on types in those languages is fascinating but it also seems like work in progress and I wouldn't recommend those languages to a beginner. The key concepts in the lisp-like languages (closures, higher-order functions, garbage collection etc) are easier to understand in a dynamic language IMO.
- runT1ME 17y ago>The key concepts in the lisp-like languages (closures, higher-order functions, garbage collection etc) are easier to understand in a dynamic language IMO. How so? F# and Scala, and Haskell aren't dynamically typed languages...