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Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:

> From this
> perspective, dynamically typed systems are subset of statical ones. Thi=
s is
> important to understand. This is also the reason why "truly dynamic" pe=
ople
> sooner or later start to argue against types. Because, take a static
> language, derive everything from same base, and you will have the case,=

> where the type information would be as useless (at compile time) as in =
a
> dynamically typed language. Static typing does not make type informatio=
n
> unavailable. It makes it in some cases a-priory known.

That's an interesting point. In Java, all classes are derived from=20
Object. Yet I find type information useful in Java. But if all=20
parameters of all methods were declared as Object, then it would start=20
to look like a dynamically typed language.

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