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Does APL Need a Type System? by Aaron W Hsu at #FnConf18
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Aaron Hsu's FnConf18 talk asks whether APL needs a static type system. He argues that APL's expressiveness and rapid iteration already deliver the benefits usually credited to types.
HN points to it as the main argument from the array-language camp that types are unnecessary there, and as a nuanced take on typed versus untyped programming.
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