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From: phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: What is B&D? (Re: Bondage and Discipline Languages)
Message-ID: <2400@garth.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 06:53:37 GMT
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In article <2670@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>
>Are you using the phrase "dynamically typed" 
>to refer to object-oriented languages? 
>I haven't run into this phrase before, and it's quite evocative.

I would certainly call APL "dynamically typed", 
but I don't think of it as "object-oriented".

As I recall, in (Classic) APL, if you don't like the value in a variable,
you can replace it with a value of any type, including an array
of rather arbitrary dimensions.  Now *that's* dynamic.

The SNOBOLs probably also qualify as "dynamically typed", 
but not "object-oriented".

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