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    The term “safe language” is, unfortunately, even more contentious than “type system”. Although people generally feel they know one when they see it, their notions of exactly what constitutes language safety are strongly influenced by the language community to which they belong. Informally, though, safe languages can be defined as ones that make it impossible to shoot yourself in the foot while programming.
(Types and Programming Languages, Benjamin C. Pierce, MIT Press, 2002)
O significado de “to shoot yourself in the foot” é
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