"Scripting language," as of today, means more expressivity, less efficiency. Why do folks insist that it means "globals OK," "eval everywhere," "variables being one of several non-polymorphic types depending on mood," "concatenating strings to get names of functions to call" etc?
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Who actually does that?
Would you like me to disclose names and be sued for libel? "Your honor, contrary to the defendant's baseless accusations, the sum type {True,False,"file not found"} is the mathematically correct range of values for the variable 'result'!"