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From: pcb@gator.cacs.usl.edu (Peter C. Bahrs)
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Subject: RE: C Strongly Typed
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Date: 8 Mar 90 06:09:10 GMT
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It is my understanding that the most important reasons that C AND Pascal
are not strongly typed is due to unions and variant records.

Assigning a character to an integer in C does not constitute a weakly typed
language.  Strongly typed languages want to be able to tell what a thing is, 
not what its value is.


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