Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 3) Message-ID: Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC References: <602@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <1991Mar14.151707.11686@maths.nott.ac.uk> <17MAR91.21285518@uc780.umd.edu> Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 17:59:36 GMT In article <17MAR91.21285518@uc780.umd.edu> cs450a03@uc780.umd.edu writes: > I'm also rather amused (if only it weren't so painful) by the amount > of memory required by statically linked programs. Smoke and mirrors time... notice how "statically typed" has become "statically linked". The two concepts are orthogonal. Besides: -rwx--x--x 3 bin bin 29217 Sep 28 1988 /bin/sh -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 206380 Nov 8 12:02 libXlisp.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 175889 Nov 8 12:11 xlisp And this is a "toy" language! -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' peter@ferranti.com +1 713 274 5180. 'U` "Have you hugged your wolf today?"