On November 20, 2005 2:47 PM Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > > "Bill Page" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [...] > | I wonder if your colleague who said: "strong typing is for the > | weak of minds" really knows what "types" in computer programming > | really are? > > well, if Pascal has a strong type system, then I can't see how I > can disagree :-/ >
Perhaps you said this only as humour? But I am curious since it is not clear to me who you are not disagreeing with ... ? Pascal was the first strongly typed language that I learned. I wrote what I thought was a fairly substantial medical application in UCSD Pascal on an Apple II microcomputer. I believe that the type system really did contribute to more reliable software development. From a historical perspective it is interesting to speculate why Pascal did not survive. I think perhaps it was because in the end it's type system was not quite flexible enough (compared say to Haskell). As a result C, with almost not type system dominated (and still dominates) most application development. Regards, Bill Page. _______________________________________________ Axiom-developer mailing list Axiom-developer@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/axiom-developer
