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		test6554 68 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government ... Under the grant rules programming languages must be strongly typed. No strings identifying as an int, etc. :-)

JuniperMesos 66 days ago [–]

I realize this is a joke, but honestly, I wouldn't mind if US federal government grant funding policy was targeted towards promoting strongly typed programming languages. It's actually bad if your programming language allows a string to identify as an int!

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