Re: Type Systems and Dynamic Binding

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From: Steve Olson
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 20:33

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In article <1991Apr17.173651.23103@visix.com> amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker) writes:
   Now, you can argue that the C language does not *include* dynamic
   typing.  I don't think anyone here would disagree with you there.
   However, you can certainly *implement* dynamic typing in C, with as
   low an overhead as you can get in any other language.

No question that you can implement user-defined dynamic typing (or 
object-oriented programming - I see this thread is cross-posted) on
top of a language such a C.  But what do you mean by "overhead"?  Often
there will low machine overhead - but programmer overhead might be a
different story.  Which one is more important will vary drastically
between different applications.

   --
   Amanda Walker						      amanda@visix.com

- Steve Olson
  MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  olson@juliet.ll.mit.edu

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