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Re:Ravi – Lua 5.3 with optional static typing by hellofunk on Saturday October 17, 2015 @05:15PM (#10406143)
Well there is also a fair amount of supportive opinion on the contrary, that "better" is a system without types altogether, hence dynamic languages.
Re:Ravi – Lua 5.3 with optional static typing by duaneb on Sunday October 18, 2015 @02:00AM (#10407354)
Dynamic languages have types, too. Even perl has its distinctions between lists and strings.
Re:Ravi – Lua 5.3 with optional static typing by aikah on Saturday October 17, 2015 @10:27PM (#10406997)
But most dynamic languages have types. PHP ,Ruby,Python and even JavaScript have types.