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Types (and Languages) à la Chart
- kyleniemeyer 16y agothe chart includes C#, D, etc, but not Fortran?
- swannodette 16y agoI find Alan Kay's perspective interesting: Some people are completely religious about type systems and as a mathematician I love the idea of type systems, but nobody has ever come up with one that has enough scope. If you combine Simula and Lisp—Lisp didn’t have data structures, it had instances of objects—you would have a dynamic type system that would give you the range of expression you need. And: I just think that’s a two-culture divide. I’ve seen many meetings where people are unable to communicate just because of the stylistic differences in approaches.
- chbarts 16y agoIt's impossible for both B and Python to be untyped. Pick a definition and stick with it.