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threatofraintoday at 4:24 AM2 repliesview on HN

I have a feeling we'll care less about untyped languages going forward as LLMs prototype faster than we do, and fast prototyping was a big reason why we cared about untyped languages.


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Jachtoday at 5:43 AM

Pedantic but Lisp is not "untyped". (Neither are JS or Python.) All data has a type you can query with the type-of function. The typing is strong, you'll get a type-error if you try to add an integer to a string. Types can be declared, and some implementations (like SBCL) can and do use that information to generate better assembly and provide some compilation-time type checks. (Those checks don't go all the way like a statically typed language would, but Lisp being a programmable programming language, you can go all the way to Haskell-style types if you want: https://coalton-lang.github.io/)

spartacusnachotoday at 4:32 AM

Javascript and Python have the most training data by far though, right?