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Brian Mastenbrook
Personal blog · brian.mastenbrook.netsecurityprogramming
Brian Mastenbrook's personal blog at brian.mastenbrook.net covers security and programming. Since 2009, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Jetsam – All good things”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Readers link this post arguing against dynamic typing. The one comment disputes its second and third points, saying the linked argument mixes up variable declarations with dynamic typing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Jetsam – All good things2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-22
What Hacker News says?
The author's second and third points are either disingenuousness or ignorance. * The omission of variable declarations has nothing to do with dynamic typing. Some dynamically-typed languages certainly do this (Ruby and Python). Some dynamically-typed languages make variable declarations optional or optionally-required (JavaScript and Perl). Some dynamically-typed languages require variable declarations (the Lisp fam…
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