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Stephen Kell

cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31

I'm an academic at King's College London 's Department of Informatics , where I teach topics in computer systems and software development, and do research within the Software Systems group .

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Talking about “types”

My essay “In Search of Types” attempts to be a dispassionate review of some of the different concepts, purposes and attitudes surrounding the word “type” in programming. I imagine that my passions are still rather thinly veiled in places. But in this post I'm going to come out with a more unabashedly ranty take…