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Re:What else are we getting wrong about programming languages? by Xcelerate on Sunday October 30, 2016 @05:56PM (#12832609)
I love Julia's type system. I just wish the whole thing was static (I've never had a case where the Any type worked better than explicitly specifying a type).
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Re:What else are we getting wrong about programming languages? by dnautics on Sunday October 30, 2016 @06:49PM (#12832959)
It works fine when you are lazy... I didn't feel like figuring out a type for a dictionary that was stashing parameters, so I just made it {symbol, any}.
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