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Can you elaborate on that? As I see it dynamic was popular in the 90's (Python, JS, Ruby), but outside of that it's always been pretty much dynamic for scriptin

by dtech 5y ago

Can you elaborate on that? As I see it dynamic was popular in the 90's (Python, JS, Ruby), but outside of that it's always been pretty much dynamic for scripting and static for everything else.

varjag 5y ago
Consider that first Fortran (statically typed) and Lisp (dynamic) implementations date back to late 1950s. Since then there was a constant tug of war between these camps, including BASIC, COBOL, Smalltalk, Pascal, and trends falling in and out of favour. All this however is rather orthogonal to the strengths of type systems. CL type system, for instance, is stronger than one of Java or C.
bcrosby95 5y ago
None of those languages were popular in the 90s.
- brabel 5y ago
  Pearl was!
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > None of those languages were popular in the 90s. JS was, because browsers. Python was starting to be toward the end of the 90s. Ruby (as I understand) was in Japan though it wasn't until Rails took off that it became popular elsewhere. Perl (not on the list but similar to those on the list) definitely was.
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