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Article #3700Re: Dynamic typing (part 31,497)
From: Chris Holt
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 14:50
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1991 14:50
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mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes: >Yes, but if we were to use the static typing enthusiasts' arguments, we >should be writing a language which doesn't have pointers. Just to add to the diversity of opinion :-), some of us think that static typing is often very useful, that dynamic typing is sometimes the best thing to use, but that pointers should never be visible to the programmer. But I don't want to restart the pointer wars again... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chris.Holt@newcastle.ac.uk Computing Lab, U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "And when they die by thousands why, he laughs like anything." G Chesterton
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!newcastle.ac.uk!turing!ncmh From: Chris.Holt@newcastle.ac.uk (Chris Holt) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 31,497) Message-ID: <1991Apr29.145017.11396@newcastle.ac.uk> Date: 29 Apr 91 14:50:17 GMT References: <1991Apr24.212350.27855@pa.dec.com> <uoH1113w164w@mantis.co.uk> Sender: news@newcastle.ac.uk Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, NE1 7RU Lines: 14