@languagehacker do you know about the synthetic vs analytical language dichotomy? I just learned about it from @HeatherRivers
@languagehacker @HeatherRivers yeah I've been thinking about how it applies to programming languages. Lisp is analytical and COBOL synthetic
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@bascule@heatherrivers Exactly! You might also like categorial grammars e.g. the kind@jasonbaldridge works with. Types taking types. -
@languagehacker@HeatherRivers don’t know anything about it but I just started following@jasonbaldridge -
@bascule you'll never look at closures the same way again. Type-raising is like a mental gestaltshift. -
@languagehacker I tend to prefer untyped languages ;)
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