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From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 14:10:26 +0100
Subject: [TUHS] Non-US Unix Activities
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On 10 Apr 2017, at 06:40, Robert Swierczek <rmswierczek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The lack of types is closer
> to the machine

It's not: it's further.  Languages like BCPL and B were fine for word-addressed machines which had really one type in the hardware, but modern machines are a seething mass of types: four or more integral types, two or more float types, at least.