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fishnchips on April 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Readability, hackability, and abstraction

"the author was confused about which subtype of Machine they were operating on"

One could hence argue for strong types. If I got €1 for each time I see careless typing breaking people's Python and Ruby scripts I could retire rich right now.

Faint on April 10, 2015 [–]

You probably mean static, not strong typing.

fishnchips on April 10, 2015 | [–]

D'oh. Of course ;)

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