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strong, dynamically-typed languages probably didn't exist in any significant way Need I do the Smug Lisp Weenie thing? That said, a lot of people didn't make
by Zak 16y ago
strong, dynamically-typed languages probably didn't exist in any significant way
Need I do the Smug Lisp Weenie thing?
That said, a lot of people didn't make the distinction between dynamically-typed and untyped twelve years ago. It was common to refer to Scheme as untyped then, and I think a few people still do.
- silentbicycle 16y agoProlog and APL had also been around for a while, or so I hear.
- jmillikin 16y agoI haven't used LISP in years, so my information may be out-of-date, but isn't it mostly untyped? I don't remember it having any mechanism for defining types -- the only types were conses and atoms (numbers, strings, etc). There was no way to say "this string is a Name and this is a City, and they are different types".
- Zak 16y agoCommon Lisp has several kinds of user-defined types (types, structs, classes). It is possible to write non-trivial code without ever using them, and I don't think they really fit in to traditional Lisp style. Classes are fairly popular in modern Common Lisp code.