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Article #6617Re: An Interesting View of "Strong" Vs. "Weak" Typing
From: lawrence.g.mayka
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 23:42
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1990 23:42
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In article <1493@castle.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes: >Do you mean "practical experience"? I wrote 8000 lines in ML, and >hand-translated to 20000 lines of C, in 4 months, resulting in a >reliable piece of software. I don't know how to quantify that in any >objective way, though. Since ML and C are both essentially compile-time typed, your experience is not a comparison as such between compile-time and run-time typing. Lawrence G. Mayka AT&T Bell Laboratories lgm@ihlpf.att.com Standard disclaimer.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!att!cbnewsc!lgm From: lgm@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (lawrence.g.mayka) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: An Interesting View of "Strong" Vs. "Weak" Typing Keywords: typing, Ada, Lisp, definitions, evidence Message-ID: <12610@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Jan 90 23:42:07 GMT References: <1493@castle.ed.ac.uk> Reply-To: lgm@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (lawrence.g.mayka,ihp,) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 16