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To put things in perspective, every decade there is an uber popular so called simple but highly inadequate non-type checked language that is taking over the wo
by throwpoiu09 8y ago
To put things in perspective, every decade there is an uber popular so called simple but highly inadequate non-type checked language that is taking over the world of novice developers. It's a social phenomenon. Started with Basic, JavaScript is the latest incarnation.
By the same token, there is also one overcomplicated yet unavoidable professional language. In that sense, Scala these days has a proud lineage of C++ and PL/I.
And one Lisp leader per decade for humans who not only perceive human-oriented syntax as an apostasy and a personal affront but expect that Borg of parentheses will win any moment now. Hi, Closure.
- TomK32 8y agothe border between non-type and type check languages is getting diffuse these days with typescript going one way and C++ the other way http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/auto http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/auto
- Felk 8y agoType deduction is very different from dynamic typing. It's still perfectly safe static typing. A better example would be C#'s "dynamic" type. I can agree with typescript though.
- BWStearns 8y agoxkcd for everything: https://xkcd.com/297/ https://xkcd.com/297/