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From: John English <je@brighton.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada
Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:07:53 +0000
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Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> 
> > In article <1039642856.867910@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>, Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> writes:
> > > C and C++ freely interconvert the fundamental arithmetic
> > > types. If you would like to construe that as accepting
> > > garbage, you are free to do so. I don't find it a very
> > > compelling argument.
> >
> > Whether one construes that as accepting garbage depends on one's
> > attitude toward computing, and potentially one's problem domain.
> 
> Heh?  In what problem domain is it beneficial to have *implicit* type
> conversions that lose information?

The domain of "keeping programmers in jobs, fixing their bugs" :-)

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