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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]▶

>>23990527 #

Ruby was invented? :)

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1. bastardoperator ◴[29 Jul 20 20:15 UTC] No.23991070[source]▶

>>23990596 #

Nope, that happened 5 years later.

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