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To be honest programmers have a habit of being very loose with language. Terms like "OOP" and "types" have very context dependent meanings. Given the context, I
by ChrisSD 6y ago
To be honest programmers have a habit of being very loose with language. Terms like "OOP" and "types" have very context dependent meanings. Given the context, I took him to simply be talking about people coming from "class-based" languages, not anything to do with types in general.
- ses1984 6y agoYeah but it feels almost like a strawman, it feels out of place.
- fernmyth 6y ago> To be honest programmers have a habit of being very loose with language. I wish this weren't true. It's quite damning. It's less bad in a real-time conversation, with fast feedback about how well we're being understood. But it still hints that we don't have the concepts clear in our own minds.