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		dehrmann 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler That's like the joke that dynamic languages are static languages, but with only one type: hash table.

gugagore 6 months ago [–]

That's not a joke. It's a perspective that is seriously held: https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/19/dynamic-lan...

(Not everyone agrees, for sure, but that's different from it being a joke.)

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