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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by ScottBurson on Sunday February 18, 2018 @07:10PM (#16409757)
The killer app for dynamic typing is when you want to develop the program concurrently with executing it. I don't know that it's technically impossible for a statically-typed language to support that usage mode, but I've never seen it done.
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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by yyhhsj0521 on Sunday February 18, 2018 @10:44PM (#16410613)
I prototype and test with ghci a lot while I'm writing Haskell. Not really impossible.
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Re:What Made Lisp Different (2002) by kqr on Monday February 19, 2018 @09:45AM (#16413130)
Does GHCi no longer flush the entire application state when you reload a module?

I know it's not as much of a big deal in Haskell where mutable state is limited, but I still remember it being an annoyance to have to manually breakfast out my data to disk and then reload it again.

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