From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,b87849933931bc93 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public From: David Hanley Subject: Re: OO, C++, and something much better! Date: 1997/01/27 Message-ID: <32ED02EE.22E2@netright.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 212576283 references: <5buodl$bci@boursy.news.erols.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: netright technologies mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: david_nospam@netright.com newsgroups: comp.object,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.eiffel x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (WinNT; I) Date: 1997-01-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Eric Clayberg wrote: > > Jon S Anthony wrote: > > Hey, ST is nice - just don't make out that its dynamic typing is as > > safe as a statically checked strongly typed language in high > > reliability scenarios. > > Baloney (back at you). There hasn't been a shred of proof presented here > that supports that supposition. Do you have any? Baloney boomerang. You've made dozens of counterintuitive claims for dynamic typing( smalltalk in particular ) and supported zero of them. In fact, people on the static typing 'side' of the issue, such as Fergus Henderson, have provided good data with compelling arguemnts for static typing. > Where is your proof > that apps built in statically typed languages are more reliable that > dynamically typed languages? A good proof would be there the set of errors which can happen in a statically typed system, as opposed to a dynamically typed syatem, are fewer. This is a very simple arguemnt. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ David Hanley, Software Developer, NetRight technologies. My employer pays me for my opinions; nonetheless he does not share all of them E-mail address munged to defeat automailers, Delete _nospam