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- From: konnbt@eua.ericsson.se (Niklas Bjornerstedt)
- Newsgroups: comp.object
- Subject: Re: Strong typing (was: Re: Pros and cons o
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.075422.7894@eua.ericsson.se>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 07:54:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.210158.21849@bnr.ca>
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- In article 21849@bnr.ca, tims@bcarh680.bnr.ca (Tim Spurway) writes:
- > In article <1993Jan27.082721.3841@nwnexus.WA.COM> markmc@halcyon.com (Mark McWiggins) writes:
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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.
- > >
- >
- > But give me this any day over my customer calling from England saying
- > "What's this 'Segmentation fault: core dumped' mean?" as in C++. :)
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- I'll second that. I my experience most runtime errors that users of a
- Smalltalk system encounter are of the type: UndefinedObject>doesNotUnderstand.
- This is very often caused by what you in C++ would call a null-pointer.
- No current type system helps you find null-pointers.
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- Niklas Bjornerstedt
- Enator Functional Systems
- Email: konnbt@eua.ericsson.se
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