alt Hacker NewsCompared to scripting languages with actual tagged types, C doesn't really have a type system, and that's readily apparent to anyone who has written C in the last 43 years and debugged a program written in it.
C pretends types exist with you, but once bytes hit the road, it's all real-life and segmentation faults.
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AlotOfReading • today at 2:50 AM
C actually does have a type system and it's one of the bigger issues with the language. If it didn't, unaligned pointers and signed overflow would be totally fine.
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By that logic, no natively-compiled language has a type system.
Though I should note that in a way, even some ISAs have one, what with e.g. separate float vs integer registers.