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Re:What Urbit is by kazinator on Wednesday June 01, 2016 @11:15PM (#11820132)
> I think we'll have to disagree about whether or not Lisp is a typed language

Only if you're willing to insert "<qualifier> typed". Without at least one <qualifier>, the debate is meaningless: every party assumes that unqualified "typed" means "<qualified> type" for some different choice of <qualified> and then it's just about asserting word semantics.

Re:What Urbit is by kazinator on Thursday June 02, 2016 @02:03AM (#11820651)
And, here we go: dug up this gem from elsewhere in this comment tree:

> A "dynamic" type system isn't actually a type system.

"<foo-berly> type" isn't "type". Use my definition, god damn it! "Type" really refers to "<bar-istic> type".

(Dynamic is scary, so scare quotes are fitting, by the way).