Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 15:44

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In article <2400035@otter.hpl.hp.com> sfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Steve Knight) writes:
> Of course, being choked to death by irate C programmers is only one of the
> many hazards of using a dynamically typed language ...

Looks to me like this is more a factor of the richness of the runtime
library, rather than the fact that it's dynamically typed. Of course,
dynamically typed languages often have a rich subroutine library, but
that's not always true. Consider Lisp 1.5, or CScheme.
-- 
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