• 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.

    • @RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • @jtk
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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?

    • @some_guy
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      01 year ago

      It’s actually hieroglyphics.