On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:36:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 05/01/2021 22:23, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> In both languages, context selects the appropriate method
>
> Until it doesn't.
>
> A day wasted debugging JavaScript to ascertain why IE was totally
> different to Firefox.
>
> There was an implicit cast happening in IE which wasn't in Firefox that
> turned a 1 into  a "1"..
>
> Context dependency just adds another layer of complexity and a source of
> more bugs

... well, if you use crappy interpreted languages with untyped variables
then you've chosen to accept that sort of thing as normal.

I much prefer strongly typed languages, so the only language I use that
isn't strongly typed is the bash shell script.



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