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In article <19MAR91.22493670@uc780.umd.edu> cs450a03@uc780.umd.edu writes:
> Dan Bernstein writes:
> >Of the languages that I've used much, I find Forth the most expressive.
> Do you, perhaps, write a lot of interface code?  (Just curious)

I don't know what you mean by ``interface code.''

> (Also
> note that there are a number of efficiency problems with C, having to
> do with the semantics of C pointers.

No. Aliasing is a problem for *optimizers*. Except on vector machines it
does not create problems for code written efficiently.

> What I have claimed is that I can solve problems faster
> in a dynamically typed language than in a statically typed language.

I firmly believe that the speed of problem-solving in any language is
based mostly, if not almost entirely, on how much already-written code
you can apply to the problem. There is no reason beyond religion to
believe that dynamic typing helps reusability.

> >Would you write a compressor in a dynamically typed language?
> As a matter of fact, one of the guys at work was doing that several
> weeks ago.  I should ask him how it came out.

Yes, please do.

---Dan