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Article #4788Re: Mesa is a dreadful language?
From: Henry Spencer
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1987 00:03
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1987 00:03
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> As for type safety... Would
> you have us go the C route, where loophole is unnecessary because
> everything is an int?
How many years has it been since you used C? Modern C is fairly strongly
typed, and getting more so all the time. (Note that if you are using a
PCC-based compiler, you are working with an implementation that is nearly
ten years old.) (If it's the one in 4.3BSD, it's also seriously buggy.)
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Mars must wait -- we have un- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
finished business on the Moon. {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,pyramid}!utzoo!henry
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