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RBS, Ruby’s new type signature language

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511 points mootrichard | 1 comments | 29 Jul 20 18:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source
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ch_123 ◴[29 Jul 20 19:16 UTC] No.23990527[source]▶
> Typed versus untyped is a 30-year-old issue for programming languages.

I'm pretty sure the merits of typed vs untyped has been going on since the 1950s at least. 30 years is such a specific period of time that it makes me wonder what happened in the early 90s that the author is referring to.

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cschep ◴[29 Jul 20 19:23 UTC] No.23990596[source]▶
Ruby was invented? :)
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HideousKojima ◴[29 Jul 20 20:04 UTC] No.23990957[source]▶
And JavaScript and Python, and a whole host of languages that didn't care about strong typing
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ch_123 ◴[29 Jul 20 20:06 UTC] No.23990986[source]▶
None of these were the first untyped languages, or even the first widely used untyped languages.
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1. vidarh ◴[29 Jul 20 20:14 UTC] No.23991066[source]▶
In fact none of them are "untyped". They are strongly typed.

BCPL could conceivably be described as untyped.