To be honest programmers have a habit of being very loose with language. Terms like "OOP" and "types" have very context dependent meanings. Given the context, I took him to simply be talking about people coming from "class-based" languages, not anything to do with types in general.
To be honest programmers have a habit of being very loose with language.
I wish this weren't true. It's quite damning.
It's less bad in a real-time conversation, with fast feedback about how well we're being understood. But it still hints that we don't have the concepts clear in our own minds.
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To be honest programmers have a habit of being very loose with language. Terms like "OOP" and "types" have very context dependent meanings. Given the context, I took him to simply be talking about people coming from "class-based" languages, not anything to do with types in general.
I wish this weren't true. It's quite damning.
It's less bad in a real-time conversation, with fast feedback about how well we're being understood. But it still hints that we don't have the concepts clear in our own minds.
Yeah but it feels almost like a strawman, it feels out of place.