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      Programming term. Variables in programming languages can hold different types of data, such as whole numbers, floating point numbers or strings of characters (“text”). Untyped languages figure out on the fly what can and cannot be done to the content of a variable, while typed languages strictly keep track of the type of content (not the value) to catch bugs and improve performance, for example.

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        111 months ago

        Any untyped languages that don’t care what is in the variable, assumes you know what your doing, and YOLOs it?

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          Np necessarily. Usually errors are detected at runtime and reported as such. So you will see where your program failed, but it usually crashes nonetjeless. Keep in mind that crashes are usually better than continuing some undefined behavior.

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      By typed they mean declairing a type for your variables.

      In some languages, variables needs to be told what kind of data they can hold. That’s it’s type. For instance a number without decimals would be an integer type. While text might be a string type or a list of character types.

      Other languages don’t require types and sometimes don’t even support them. They will just infer the type from the data that’s in the variable.

      If you see Elon Musk please explain this to him.

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        If you see Elon Musk please explain this to him.

        I’m an idiot, and I still don’t think I could dumb it down to his level.

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      Might be able to call assembly untyped. Everything beyond that I think would be called either statically or dynamically typed, maybe weakly typed?