Re: [9fans] MIPS LSB compiler

[Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net>]

>    * A ducktyping of sorts with interfaces and such. On the surface
> it just saves
>      you a bunch of "extends XXX", but it actually seems to bridge
> the gap between
>      dynamically typed world and a statically typed one to an extent
> that makes me
>      rethink whether static typed languages are as devoid of fun as a
> Principia Mathematica is.

The type system is more restrictive than duck typing.  Thats sort
of the point of any static type system.  But there are useful constructs
that you can express in a dynamically typed language or a language
with a more complex type system that you cannot express in go.  A
good, simple example is "map".  Go would need generics to support it.

> Roman.

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