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In these studies advocating for the unyielding rigor of statically-typed languages, it's amusing that the authors choose to express their arguments in English: a language where "read" and "lead" rhyme, but "read" and "lead" don't. Perhaps a more consistent constructed language like Lojban would have better suited the papers' theses. /s

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Making a computer understand a different language takes one command to the package manager. In a human being that would take years, and never completely succeed. English is obviously deranged but this audience is stuck with it.

um, they both rhyme - read (i read a book yesterday) and lead (a metal). and then read (what i am doing about what i am typing now) and lead (what you do to take a pig to market).

Thank you for the English lesson, but you claim you've never encountered ambiguous overloaded identifiers that you couldn't resolve while developing a parser? "He took the lead"?

of course that's ambiguous - english is not context free

Then you can't claim they both rhyme, because I didn't provide that context...

and lead (what you do to take a pig to market).

That's a curious example. There's surprisingly little on pigleading out there!

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22lead+a+pig%22

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