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Not trying to be mean, but there's not much content here. It's a definition of the term "stringly typed" (from another blog) followed by the idea of using appropriate types.


I guess the author is "one of today's 10,000", as they say. Wiktionary attests the term from 2019 but I'm sure I've been hearing it much longer than that.


The post is a true web-log. Someone logged something they learned and put it on the web.


I first heard of it from Jeff Atwood in 2012, loads of fun concepts here I reference often. Favorite must be "shrug report"

https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/


I was working with the Torque Game Engine in like 2008 which had a scripting language where almost all data was strings. Vectors? String of three numbers with spaces in between. Looking back I think it was kind of TCL inspired. But I definitely heard it called "stringly typed".


xkcd has a relevant take on this: https://xkcd.com/1053/

TLDR, we should totally be celebrating learning in public


That's not just a take, that's the origin of the phrase OP used :)

In a beautiful meta moment, you are one of today's 10k about the origin of 10k :D


I'm witnessing...something!




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