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> Typed versus untyped is a 30-year-old issue for programming languages. I'm pretty sure the merits of typed vs untyped has been going on since the 1950s at le

by ch_123 6y ago

> Typed versus untyped is a 30-year-old issue for programming languages. I'm pretty sure the merits of typed vs untyped has been going on since the 1950s at least. 30 years is such a specific period of time that it makes me wonder what happened in the early 90s that the author is referring to.

cschep 6y ago
Ruby was invented? :)
- HideousKojima 6y ago
  And JavaScript and Python, and a whole host of languages that didn't care about strong typing
  - ch_123 6y ago
    None of these were the first untyped languages, or even the first widely used untyped languages.
    - vidarh 6y ago
      In fact none of them are "untyped". They are strongly typed. BCPL could conceivably be described as untyped.
  - vidarh 6y ago
    Ruby and Python are both strongly typed. They are not statically typed.
- yakshaving_jgt 6y ago
  Ruby is only 25, but Haskell is 30.
- bastardoperator 6y ago
  Nope, that happened 5 years later.