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authorDrew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>2019-09-08 16:18:48 -0700
committerDrew DeVault <sir@cmpwn.com>2019-09-08 16:18:48 -0700
commita7b139d0abee855c46ba5c098cb3dbca72d31b81 (patch)
tree6e66d765e87d550b9138365a0ae2f1557ff0d604
parent33aea47851696f578482a665c5630cc1e99830c3 (diff)
Clarify terminology
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@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ on, there are many that aren't here and which I encourage you to research.
## C
Pros: good performance, access to low-level tooling, useful in systems
-programming, strongly typed, standardized and venerable, the lingua franca,
+programming, statically typed, standardized and venerable, the lingua franca,
universal support on all platforms.[^1]
[^1]: Except one, and it can go suck an egg for all I care.
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ Cons: far too big, non-standardized, only one meaningful implementation.
Pros: easy and fast to get things done, diverse package ecosystem of reasonably
well designed packages, deeply extensible, useful for server-side web software.
-Cons: bloated, poor performance, weakly typed, cpython internals being available
-to programmers has led to an implementation monoculture.
+Cons: bloated, poor performance, dynamically typed, cpython internals being
+available to programmers has led to an implementation monoculture.
## JavaScript
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ to programmers has led to an implementation monoculture.
Pros: functional but with an expressive and C-like syntax, ES6 improved on many
fronts, async/await/promises are well designed, no threading.
-Cons: weakly typed, package ecosystem is a flaming pile, many JS programmers
+Cons: dynamic types, package ecosystem is a flaming pile, many JS programmers
aren't very good at it and they make ecosystem-defining libraries anyway, born
in web browsers and inherited their many flaws.