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From: bvickers@ics.uci.edu (Brett J. Vickers)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: C strongly typed?
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Date: 8 Mar 90 00:41:36 GMT
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In article <1990Mar7.182230.5517@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>                                  C's type system is not extensible unless
>you count "struct", but the language is strongly typed -- mixing random
>types is not allowed.

This is simply not true.

foo()
{
  int a;
  char c;

  a = 48;
  c = a;
}

As far as I know, this will compile.  C is extremely flexibly typed.
If you want a strongly typed language, use Ada.

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bvickers@bonnie.ics.uci.edu