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> One of the traits that allows us to be competent programmers I think we've failed then since we've totally overloaded and confused basic concepts such as wea
by true_religion 14y ago
> One of the traits that allows us to be competent programmers
I think we've failed then since we've totally overloaded and confused basic concepts such as weak/strong typing and dynamic/static typing.
To make matters worse, those are cases where we as programmers invented to terminology at hand and didn't just appropriate it into a programming context.
- petercooper 14y agoSince you brought up typing, you might enjoy this related confusion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9154388/does-untyped-also-mean-dynamically-typed-in-the-academic-cs-world http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9154388/does-untyped-also...