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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost?
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"Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org> writes:

>                                  However, that's a significantly different
> thing than comparing a weak-typed language (such as C) to a strongly typed
> language, since Ada still provides a lot of checks on its own defined types
> that C does not. (Parameter passing or automatic data conversions are good
> examples. Checking those things can result in major reductions in errors -
> which Ada does and C does not.)

I suppose OP could try ANSI-C-with-prototypes vs original-K&R-C> I am
perpetually amazed by folk who don't write prototypes ...