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From: lgm@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (lawrence.g.mayka)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: An Interesting View of "Strong" Vs. "Weak" Typing
Keywords: typing, Ada, Lisp, definitions, evidence
Message-ID: <12610@cbnewsc.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Jan 90 23:42:07 GMT
References: <1493@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: lgm@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (lawrence.g.mayka,ihp,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1493@castle.ed.ac.uk> nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) writes:
>Do you mean "practical experience"? I wrote 8000 lines in ML, and
>hand-translated to 20000 lines of C, in 4 months, resulting in a
>reliable piece of software. I don't know how to quantify that in any
>objective way, though.

Since ML and C are both essentially compile-time typed, your
experience is not a comparison as such between compile-time and
run-time typing.


	Lawrence G. Mayka
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	lgm@ihlpf.att.com

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