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		rwmj on Nov 5, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A statically typed language I'd actually want to u... Those who don't know type inference are destined to reinvent it ... badly.

raganwald on Nov 5, 2010 | [–]

True, but Matz didn't know a lot of things about programming languages and luckily for me, he didn't care and reinvented them anyways.

vukk on Nov 5, 2010 | [–]

Especially as the upcoming BitC language seems to have sound _and_ complete type inference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitC

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