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good one, @gnat. your duplicate is another duplicate and you've marked it yourself :-)miraculixx– miraculixx2016-07-16 12:51:21 +00:00Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 12:51
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duplicates are not always transitivegnat– gnat2016-07-16 12:53:18 +00:00Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 12:53
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2Many of "all those programming languages" modeled their data types on what was natively supported in hardware.dbasnett– dbasnett2016-07-16 13:19:07 +00:00Commented Jul 16, 2016 at 13:19
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2None of those types are necessary; in fact, types are not necessary at all. We can compute any mathematical function that is computable in one of those programming languages without even using bits in the untyped lambda calculus. Why on earth would you use a programming language with all these unnecessary concepts like bits, numbers, true, false, and so on, when you can develop them all from scratch using Church numerals?Eric Lippert– Eric Lippert2016-07-18 17:18:01 +00:00Commented Jul 18, 2016 at 17:18
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