Interview at Lang.NEXT

bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 4 11:29:47 PDT 2014


Adam D. Ruppe:

> Of course, sometimes the type still matters,

Haskell programmers have a very different attitude toward types. 
They do a kind of type-driven programming, even in small 
programs. They lay down the data types (like the algebraic data 
types that describe the data structures of the problem), and then 
let the compiler, the type errors (and even a recent feature of 
the compiler named type holes) to write down the solutions and be 
guided toward correct code. This is kind of the opposite of 
trying to remove types using dynamic typing, and it's also far 
from the kind of strong static typing you see in Ada language.

Bye,
bearophile


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