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static typing (Score:1)

by mary.poppins (3530)

Here's another controversial one:

Static typing without type inference

If you're going to make a new language, please make a type-inferring version of C. kthxbye
- Re:static typing (Score:2)
  
  by schwern (1528)
  
  Could you give an example of a language which avoids this regret?
  - Re:static typing (Score:1)
    
    by mary.poppins (3530) on 2005.04.08 21:43 (#39517) Homepage Journal
    
    Statically typed type-inferring languages include ML [wikipedia.org] variants (SML [wikipedia.org] and OCaml [wikipedia.org] being the most common), as well as Haskell [wikipedia.org] and Clean [wikipedia.org].
    
    All of these have entries posted at the shootout [debian.org].
    
    None of these languages are suitable for low-level programming (kernels, databases, etc.), which is why we need a type-inferring version of something more like C.
    
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