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I don't use Go, but I thought that nulls in it were memory safe (i.e. they abort rather than corrupt); am I wrong?

If I'm not wrong, this is a non-sequitor on a post about Common Lisp as Common Lisp is untyped, but (by default; some implementations allow you to disable safety) safe.



Technically Common Lisp is optionally typed. You can add static typing if you feel like it, and it can give you a significant performance boost when you do.

Fortunately, I don't have to bother with it most of the time since the amount of code that is time-critical enough for it to matter is very small.




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