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From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Dynamic typing (part 3)
Message-ID: <5025@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 21 Mar 91 13:33:09 GMT
References: <602@optima.cs.arizona.edu> <YR+9VUB@xds13.ferranti.com> <1991Mar13.010946.4536@engage.enet.dec.com>
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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In article <1991Mar13.010946.4536@engage.enet.dec.com>, grier@marx.enet.dec.com writes:
>    I also claim agnostance(is that a real word?) on the utility of dynamic
> typing.  Other than BASIC, I can't say I've ever used it to build
> any real software...

It's news to me that BASIC has dynamic typing.  Surely a string variable
X$ can't have numbers or arrays as values, an integer variable X% can't
have strings or arrays as values, a string array variable B$() can't
be a string or a number, a function FNA% must be an integer function,
and so on.  In short, surely BASIC uses static typing?

-- 
Seen from an MVS perspective, UNIX and MS-DOS are hard to tell apart.