Yup...i can confirm thatdevilish666@lemmy.world to Programmer Humor@programming.dev – 214 points – 4 days ago42Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentDynamic typing is the source of very amazing errors, see JavaScript.I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years agoYep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise. ...also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It's been a while. (And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).[object Object] !Reddit moment.!<
Dynamic typing is the source of very amazing errors, see JavaScript.I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years agoYep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise. ...also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It's been a while. (And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).[object Object] !Reddit moment.!<
I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years agoYep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise. ...also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It's been a while. (And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).
Yep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise. ...also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It's been a while. (And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).
Dynamic typing is the source of very amazing errors, see JavaScript.
I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago
Yep lua and lisp/scheme are also unityped and not even close to as broken. All are remarkably similar languages, theory-wise.
...also something something Guido not getting tail call elimination and people sending him copies of the wizard book. It's been a while.
(And, yes, lua does proper tail calls).
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