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undees on May 23, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: C++ at Google: Here Be Dragons

The term "strong" appears overloaded here. A language can be dynamically typed, but still have strong typing (in the sense that the language, whether at compile time or runtime, enforces what operations are allowed on a particular value).

daniel-cussen on May 23, 2011 [–]

This is true. Lisp compiles beautifully if you put the work into making it do so, and this work can be automated with macros.

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