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Article #3562Re: Run-time Type Errors in Smalltalk
From: Dan Bernstein
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 19:16
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 19:16
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In article <2023@optima.cs.arizona.edu> gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman) writes: > And the errors that can be caught by static type checking are almost > universally so trivial that they probably all _would_ be caught by > testing. Goofus uses dynamic typing. Gallant uses static typing. Goofus says static typing catches so few errors that they probably all _would_ be caught by testing. Gallant simply catches all the errors. Goofus finds 95% of the typing bugs during testing. Gallant finds 100%. Management fires Goofus. ---Dan P.S. 1/2 :-) for the humor-impaired.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!cmcl2!kramden.acf.nyu.edu!brnstnd From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Run-time Type Errors in Smalltalk Message-ID: <8189:Apr1719:16:2091@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> Date: 17 Apr 91 19:16:20 GMT References: <2023@optima.cs.arizona.edu> Organization: IR Lines: 16