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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)
Message-ID: <4A6A384@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 22 Mar 91 15:23:05 GMT
References: <602@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1610006@hpdtczb.HP.COM>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <1610006@hpdtczb.HP.COM> wallace@hpdtczb.HP.COM (David Wallace) writes:
> I also got additional functionality
> for free: command scripts, the next thing I wanted to add to the program,
> took 0 lines of code in Lisp.  (load "file") worked just fine.

Forth is a statically "typed" language, and has the same advantage. This
has nothing to do with dynamic typing.
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