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by adgjlsfhk1 498 days ago
the place where imo static languages come up short is first class functions.
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Gibbon1 498 days ago
I think C# has first class functions. Any pure function you can pass around. And you can create lambdas.

gcc has nested functions that can act like a closure.

And Clang has blocks.

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Turskarama 497 days ago
What are you talking about, the majority of functional languages have static types.
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