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From: tmoran@acm.org
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Subject: Re: Who said strong typing is a benefit?
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> write code faster in matlab than in a strongly typed language such as Ada
asdfghjkl;'
Bet you can't write code faster than dragging your finger across the
keyboard.  And I could make an interpreter that did something as a
result.  But the real question is not how fast you can write, but
how fast you can write a program that does what you want.  Strong
typing helps do *that* fast.
  As already pointed out, there's also the little matter of the difference
between weak vs strong typing and static vs dynamic typing.

> performing operations no matter what the actual data
> types turn out to be at run-time"
  What does the interpreter do when you add a 3D vector to a 2D vector,
or do "if A > B" where A and B are complex, etc.  I don't doubt that
it will "perform operations no matter what" - I'm just curious what
those operations might turn out to be.