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by sheepmullet 3180 days ago
> Ever try to grep weakly typed system for name definition?

For what purpose?

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To understand a codebase?
I haven't had any problems jumping around large codebases in smalltalk, clojure, or JavaScript.

I've had a lot more trouble understanding large Java codebases.

I thought they might be talking about difficulty refactoring.