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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by mratzloff on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:32AM (#15642820)
I mean, there was webmail back then... Besides a prettier interface and hitting refresh to check for new messages, there's no substantive difference.
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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by mercer on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @07:39AM (#15642846)
You're excluding exactly what I suspect OP considers a substantive difference.
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Re:Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-or... by oblio on Tuesday November 07, 2017 @09:39AM (#15643687)
Yes, exactly:

"Besides this major technical difference, there is basically no major technical difference" :)

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