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In Search of Types (2014) [pdf]
- lewisjoe 7y agoA must-read piece for people trying to understand language design theoretics. The paper clearly talks about all the perspectives around the word type, and then discusses the ambiguity in the usage of the term. Was very helpful to decrypt what people mean by type under different contexts.
- js8 7y agoFor a while, I felt the same thing. I commented about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21788429 I am not sure how my classification maps to that of author's. In particular, I think his classification omits dynamic dispatch.