RE: Is strong typing worth the cost?

["Beard, Frank [Contractor]" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>]

From: dmjones [mailto:derek@NOSPAMknosof.co.uk]

> Who mentioned safe and correct?  This is avoiding the base
> issue.  Where is the evidence of a worthwhile cost/benefit
> for strong typing?

If you can't grasp the connection between "safe and correct"
and "cost/benefit", then everyone is wasting their time
discussing it with you.  It is a fundamental key point.

I haven't seen any research lately on the benefits of strong
typing.  Why should there be any, since most of the C/C++
camps, and other loosely typed languages, don't care?  That's
why you end up with products like Windows that are expected
to crash frequently.  And they don't care, because they'll
just charge you for an upgrade to fix things that shouldn't
have been there in the first place.  And that's also why you 
don't see Microsoft products user in life-and-death situations.

Does anybody remember the link to the site/agency that forbade
C from being used on mission critical or safety critical systems?
They had a paper on the site the went into the reasons.  Most of
them, even if not explicitly stated, where strong typing issues.
It's been several years since I read it, and I can't remember
where.