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I like how the author acknowledges the problem with the very word "type" - https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/stephen-kell/in-s...

The word "Type" is such an overloaded term, just like how "Workflow" is an overloaded term in the tech industry[1]. For example, when people say "X is strongly typed language" means something much different than when people say "In Haskell, function have types" [2] or "Idris has dependent types".

They aren't completely unrelated, but they mean two very different set of things depending on the context.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21544453 [2] http://learnyouahaskell.com/types-and-typeclasses




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