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CompSci Lecturer. Go player. Programming language researcher. Idris hacker. Denies knowledge of Whitespace. He/him. http://tinyurl.com/TypeDD 

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    1. Edwin Brady‏ @edwinbrady Jan 21
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      Edwin Brady Retweeted Alexis King

      I enjoy using dynamically typed languages (especially Scheme) from time to time. I feel like I take a type driven approach when I do, but there's some kinds of exploration when it just feels like a nice way to work.https://twitter.com/lexi_lambda/status/1219103128836100098 …

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      Alexis King @lexi_lambda
      I’ve seen a few static typing fans advancing the “dynamically typed languages are like statically typed languages that have just one type” argument. This is sometimes a useful perspective to take, but it usually isn’t. Dynamically typed languages have different types of values.
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    2. Edwin Brady‏ @edwinbrady Jan 21
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      I say this partly because some of the reaction to @lexi_lambda's recent very nice blog post seems to be summarised by "No! This is how you do programming! Everyone's problems are just like mine and everyone thinks the same way as me!"

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      Edwin Brady‏ @edwinbrady Jan 21
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      I love reading about why people like dynamic typing, partly because it gives me a new way of thinking about things, but mostly because saying that something is impossible with static types makes me think "Yay! Challenge accepted!"

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        1. Edwin Brady‏ @edwinbrady Jan 21
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          Anyway, please keep arguing about it, because it's fascinating. Just remember to be nice, and that your problems are not the same as everyone else's!

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        1. Alex Knauth‏ @AlexKnauth Jan 21
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          I love that "Challenge accepted" way of thinking. Thinking about the patterns people use in dynamic languages, thinking about describing those patterns? Often out of those patterns there's some part that can be described statically with a type system, only a very unorthodox one

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        1. Phairupegiont‏ @Phairupegiont Jan 21
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          How about this challenge: "Code modification at runtime is impossible with static types."

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