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submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Dynamic typing is the source of very amazing errors, see JavaScript.

[–] sus 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise.

...also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It's been a while.

(And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

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