What is the future of programming? I retain a romantic belief in the potential of scientific revolution. To recite one example, the invention of Calculus provided a revolutionary language for the development of Physics. I believe that there is a "Calculus of programming" waiting to be discovered, which will analogously revolutionize the way we program. Notation does matter."More here.
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What's the difference, then, between dynamic typing and inferenced static typing?
a = 0
b = 4
will not fail in Boo. Yet it's still static typing.