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From: quale@picard.cs.wisc.edu (Douglas E. Quale)
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Subject: Re: blip [Re: Dynamic typing -- To Have and Have Not ...]
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Date: 20 Mar 91 15:40:31 GMT
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In article <11820:Mar1923:59:3591@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>
>Actually, I have a reasonably good idea of what I'm talking about. My
>comments on dynamically typed languages are based not only on my
>experience but also on many objective and subjective articles by both
>detractors from and proponents of such languages. As a matter of fact,

And Dan also claims that debugging and program development is faster in a
statically typed language than in a dynamically typed language.  Since you
claim your beliefs are based on your vast knowledge of the applicable
literature, please give us a reference supporting this dubious claim.

In another article Dan claims that Gnu Emacs is mostly written in C,
"with a small amount of helper code."  This is absolutely false.

-- Doug Quale
quale@khan.cs.wisc.edu