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Article #3076Re: blip [Re: Dynamic typing -- To Have and Have Not ...]
From: Douglas E. Quale
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 15:40
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 15:40
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In article <11820:Mar1923:59:3591@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes: > >Actually, I have a reasonably good idea of what I'm talking about. My >comments on dynamically typed languages are based not only on my >experience but also on many objective and subjective articles by both >detractors from and proponents of such languages. As a matter of fact, And Dan also claims that debugging and program development is faster in a statically typed language than in a dynamically typed language. Since you claim your beliefs are based on your vast knowledge of the applicable literature, please give us a reference supporting this dubious claim. In another article Dan claims that Gnu Emacs is mostly written in C, "with a small amount of helper code." This is absolutely false. -- Doug Quale quale@khan.cs.wisc.edu
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