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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by dtech on Friday October 01, 2021 @03:43PM (#28722600)
Can you elaborate on that? As I see it dynamic was popular in the 90's (Python, JS, Ruby), but outside of that it's always been pretty much dynamic for scripting and static for everything else.
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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by varjag on Friday October 01, 2021 @03:59PM (#28722746)
Consider that first Fortran (statically typed) and Lisp (dynamic) implementations date back to late 1950s. Since then there was a constant tug of war between these camps, including BASIC, COBOL, Smalltalk, Pascal, and trends falling in and out of favour.

All this however is rather orthogonal to the strengths of type systems. CL type system, for instance, is stronger than one of Java or C.

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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by bcrosby95 on Friday October 01, 2021 @03:51PM (#28722658)
None of those languages were popular in the 90s.
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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by dragonwriter on Saturday October 02, 2021 @12:15PM (#28729752)
> None of those languages were popular in the 90s.

JS was, because browsers. Python was starting to be toward the end of the 90s. Ruby (as I understand) was in Japan though it wasn't until Rails took off that it became popular elsewhere. Perl (not on the list but similar to those on the list) definitely was.

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Re:Learning Common Lisp to beat Java and Rust on a phone enc... by brabel on Saturday October 02, 2021 @12:31AM (#28725973)
Pearl was!
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