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From: gudeman@cs.arizona.edu (David Gudeman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)
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Date: 18 Mar 91 02:49:08 GMT
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In article  <1991Mar17.131413.13312@redsox.bsw.com> Larry Campbell writes:
]
]Given the difficulty of completely testing all possible functions in any
]large software product, the difference between catching the error at compile
]time and catching it at runtime is the difference between YOU discovering the
]error during development and the CUSTOMER discovering the error in the field.

Millions of lines worth of code written in dynamically typed languages
is in regular use throughout the word, and no general problems with
robustness have been noticed.  Until there is some evidence strong
enough to counter this wealth of experience, I wish people would stop
making unsupported statements like the one above.
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					David Gudeman
gudeman@cs.arizona.edu
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