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Re^5: (Way OT) Type systems

by FoxtrotUniform (Prior)
on Oct 15, 2004 at 18:52 UTC ( [id://399615]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^4: (OT) "Learn one new language every year"? Yeah, right.
in thread (OT) "Learn one new language every year"? Yeah, right.

If you like Java's type checking, you'll love any language with a modern Hindley-Milner type system. (Haskell is one; I believe OCaml is another.) My mental model of this type systems keeps evolving; right now it's something like a lightweight OO system with easy and unambiguous multiple inheritance, augmented with recursive typing. Of course I despised it when I started writing Haskell -- I was used to the Lispy "lots of conses" method of functional programming -- but it's grown on me.

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