It's kinda incredible how out of practice I am with strongly-typed languages. I'm sure it will come back but right now I don't have an instinct for composition and it's really frustrating.
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Replying to @generativist
TBH this is why I have been questioning whether it is a good strategy to teach introductory courses in python etc. I was educated in the system of “we teach you C, C++, and Java and you can basically program in any language after that”... and I kinda see the rationale there.
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Replying to @pvineetha
Depends on the domain I think. I'm rarely building big systems, so I rarely need types. If I was teaching, I would do Python -- lets users get closer to the most useful abstractions in intro courses. ...but, in your domain, that may not be true.
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Replying to @generativist
Yeah, agree that it depends on the domain. I was mostly talking from a Computer Science education perspective. But part of me also wonders whether there is a benefit because of the side-effect(?) w.r.t. how strongly typed languages make one “think”, irrespective of the domain.
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Replying to @pvineetha
Oh yea. I forgot my OP lol. Yes. Type composition is good thinking!
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Replying to @generativist
I was wondering whether I phrased that clearly enough to reflect what I was thinking. Glad that you see what I was trying to say!
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Nope, it was clear. But my attention is twitter-scattered right now.
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Replying to @generativist
Haha, it all of us.
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