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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by flavio81 on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:47PM (#15387795)
>There is dynamic and then there is crap dynamic. (...) There is crap static too.

Excellent. My point exactly. I have no fear of using a static or dynamic language, as long as it is a good implementation of a statically (or dynamically) typed language.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by passivepinetree on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:44PM (#15388622)
What would you consider good implementations of either?
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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by flavio81 on Monday October 02, 2017 @07:29PM (#15388828)
Good "statics": Haskell, ML family, maybe Rust.

Good "dynamics": All the Lisp-family languages. Smalltalk. Julia. Lua. Tcl.

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