Java type annotations, multi-precision

[Paulo Pinto]

Am 09.02.2014 17:23, schrieb Francesco Cattoglio:
> On Sunday, 9 February 2014 at 15:38:24 UTC, bearophile wrote:
>> Two unrelated things found recently on Reddit:
>>
>> In Java 8 they have added type annotations:
>> http://www.mscharhag.com/2014/02/java-8-type-annotations.html
>
> Wow, they are totally coping! :P Jokes aside, now I wonder: what
> language introduced type anotation first?

.NET did it before Java.

Along the way Python got them too.

Common Lisp and Dylan had them before the former.

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Paulo