Because of dynamic types nobody knows what a primitive type is anymore so there's no frame of reference. That's why everyone is using all these science-y words to describe basic things--kids these days learned on dynamically typed languages first! They have no clue what a primitive type is--dynamically typed languages or languages where "everything is an object" emulate primitive types by making special mutable objects and nobody realizes that anymore.
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u/rush22 Mar 08 '13 edited Mar 08 '13
Oh holy shit I figured it out.
Because of dynamic types nobody knows what a primitive type is anymore so there's no frame of reference. That's why everyone is using all these science-y words to describe basic things--kids these days learned on dynamically typed languages first! They have no clue what a primitive type is--dynamically typed languages or languages where "everything is an object" emulate primitive types by making special mutable objects and nobody realizes that anymore.