>>9 Bits are real and useless. They only become manipulable via an ephemeral imaginary concept of types.
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Anonymous2016-11-20 18:18
Types are only meaningful as a concept, they do not physically exist in real computers. Every operation in a computer is a mapping between bit patterns, it doesn't matter whether a bit pattern was created by a floating point sqrt function or an integer addition function, the computer sees the end result the same. The only sort of persistent, real type information that can exist in a physical computer is the size and identity of registers.
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Anonymous2016-11-20 18:40
>>14 There are lots of things that are only meaningful as a concept, but without which life would be total shit, e.g. law, mercy, justice. Types are the law and order of the computer world, allowing us to organize the barbaric Wild West of bits into a civilized and productive nation of variables and values.