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So you agree it is a strawman?

• vacuity 11mo ago
  Perhaps Dijkstra was going for the former, but is it bad to consider a stronger argument along the lines of what he said?
  • bazoom42 11mo ago
    A charitable interpretation would be he critizises e.g JavaScripts silent type coercion which can hide silly mistakes, compared to e.g Python which will generally throw an error in case of incompatible types.