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First financial application where you accidentally assign a string to an int or NaN gets treated as 0 (implicit floating point when dealing with fixed point mo
by optimiz3 5y ago
First financial application where you accidentally assign a string to an int or NaN gets treated as 0 (implicit floating point when dealing with fixed point money = shudder) makes you enthusiastic about static typing real fast.
- formerly_proven 5y agoYou are confusing static and dynamic and weak and strong typing.
- optimiz3 5y agoFor all practical discussions (i.e. top 10 languages used in real world production), when people say static they mean strong+static.