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siika2000 on Feb 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: I finally understand why I'm not allowed to use Li...

> The ideal would be a dynamic language with optional static typing but I have yet to see a language like that.

That would be Common Lisp.

stcredzero on Feb 20, 2011 | [–]

That would be Common Lisp.

There was such a version of Smalltalk called Strongtalk, but it never got a community behind it.

igouy on Feb 22, 2011 | | [–]

Actually - "but then the Java phenomenon happened and we eventually had to switch to Java before ever releasing it".

http://www.strongtalk.org/history.html

davidk0101 on Feb 20, 2011 | [–]

I'm waiting for perl 6.

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