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Article #3632Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)
From: Brian R. Murphy
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1991 19:04
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 1991 19:04
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In article <1991Apr16.151100.7221@maths.nott.ac.uk> anw@maths.nott.ac.uk (Dr A. N. Walker) writes: >In article <1991Apr9.021700.2688@neon.Stanford.EDU> >brm@neon.Stanford.EDU (Brian R. Murphy) writes: > >>My complaint about statically typed languages is that I _can't_ do >>some things in them that I _do_ in dynamically typed languages (such >>as Lisp). > > But your examples are perfectly OK in *some* statically typed >languages, which suggests that it's a problem with your specific languages >rather than with typing. Your solutions to my examples all have type declarations in them. In my posting, I believe I clarified the my above complaint with "without type declarations." -Brian Murphy brm@cs.stanford.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!stanford.edu!neon.Stanford.EDU!brm From: brm@neon.Stanford.EDU (Brian R. Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 3) Summary: static typing loses Keywords: type dynamic static inference Message-ID: <1991Apr22.190400.9965@neon.Stanford.EDU> Date: 22 Apr 91 19:04:00 GMT References: <boehm.670539603@siria> <1991Apr9.021700.2688@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr16.151100.7221@maths.nott.ac.uk> Sender: brm@cs.stanford.edu Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Ca , USA Lines: 18