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- From: markmc@halcyon.com (Mark McWiggins)
- Subject: Strong typing (was: Re: Pros and cons of C++)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.082721.3841@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer)
- Organization: Northwest Nexus Inc. (206) 455-3505
- References: <MUTS.93Jan13090705@PMCS.estec.esa.nl> <1993Jan13.215141.14487@informix.com> <TMB.93Jan14144656@arolla.idiap.ch> <C1G9H4.HsA@unix.portal.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:27:21 GMT
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- samantha@shell.portal.com (Samantha Atkins) writes:
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- >Am I going askew here or is it as it seems to me that so called strong typing
- >creates an untenable mess if you seriously attempt its use now and for the
- >future?
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- Recompilation is an "untenable mess"? True, with CPUs even fast as they
- are now and tools relatively dumb, you can do unnecessary recompilation.
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- But give me this any day over my customer calling from Buenos Aires
- saying "What's this 'method not found' mean?" as in Smalltalk.
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