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From: amanda@visix.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: CHALLENGE: typing and reusability (was: Re: blip)
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.205414.5886@visix.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 20:54:14 GMT
References: <1991Mar26.005805.1914@kodak.kodak.com> <1991Mar27.040253.17343@leland.Stanford.EDU> <jls.670121104@rutabaga>
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jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) writes:
>The Achilles Heel of dynamically-typed languages is run-time errors.

I must be missing something--how does static typing preclude run-time errors?

>This gets a little trickier when the code is running embedded in a
>$100 million satellite orbiting Venus.

Anything is a little trickier when it's orbiting Venus.  I fail to
see what this has to do with static vs. dynamic typing...
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