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The idea of having the language force the programmer to check for all cases of an algebraic type had not been invented at the time. It's hard to blame them for
by cryptonector 4y ago
The idea of having the language force the programmer to check for all cases of an algebraic type had not been invented at the time. It's hard to blame them for the problem. I mean, yeah, they should have arrived at that solution, but it took a few more years of language research to hit upon it.
- still_grokking 4y agoGo appeared 2009…
- cryptonector 4y agoHaskell appeared much earlier.
- still_grokking 4y agoYes, exactly that's the point. But the parent wrote: > The idea of having the language force the programmer to check for all cases of an algebraic type had not been invented at the time.